Test 3 · ★ · Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to C…

No cap, what was the giant holding on his shoulder?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: shoulder

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 2047 «Tanglewood Tales, The Minotaur, part 6: Theseus sails to Crete and meets the brazen giant Talus» of the books course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 giant	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 giant	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 giant	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 giant	det
7	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 cap	parataxis
8	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 giant	advcl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 shoulder	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 shoulder	nmod:poss
11	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 holding	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	no cap					giant property	tree rules
2	hold	gerund	no cap not said here			his shoulder			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on shoulder=Location

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

a heavy brass club studded with nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 club	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 club	amod
3	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 club	compound
4	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	studded	stud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 club	acl
6	with	with	ADP	_	7 nails	case
7	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 studded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stud	participle		a heavy brass club not said here				with nails	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with nail=Theme

Option 2

a long iron-tipped spear from the armoury

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 spear	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 spear	amod
3	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tipped	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 iron	punct
5	tipped	tip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 spear	amod
6	spear	spear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 armoury	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 armoury	det
9	armoury	armoury	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spear	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tip	participle							vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a brass club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 club	det
2	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 club	compound
3	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a heavy stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
2	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stone	amod
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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