Test 4 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Is the giant proper mental or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mental	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mental	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mental	amod
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mental	amod
5	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 mental	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mental	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						mental property	tree rules

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

He eats travellers for his dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eats	nsubj
2	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eats	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 dinner	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dinner	nmod:poss
6	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	He	travellers				for his dinner	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveller=Patient

Option 2

He's proper nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 nasty	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 nasty	aux
3	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nasty	amod
4	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

He keeps a pet dog called Truncheon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 keeps	nsubj
2	keeps	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	pet	pet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dog	compound
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keeps	obj
6	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 dog	acl
7	Truncheon	Truncheon	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	present	He	a pet dog					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Theme
2	call	participle		a pet dog not said here					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He grinds people's bones for bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grinds	nsubj
2	grinds	grind	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bones	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 people	case
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 grinds	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 bread	case
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 grinds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	present	He	people's bones				for bread	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent bone=Product for bread=Beneficiary

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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