Test 6 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

how many giants were chilling by the fire, fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: many giants · What happens: chill

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 709 «Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Niels shoots at three giants and is caught» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 giants	amod
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chilling	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chilling	aux
5	chilling	chill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 fire	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chilling	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 fr	punct
10	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fire	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 chilling	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chill	past · progressive	many giants					by the fire and fr	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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

four

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

three

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

two

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root

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

Option 4

three giants plus a little black dog by the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 giants	nummod
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	plus	plus	CCONJ	_	7 dog	cc
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dog	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
6	black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 dog	amod
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giants	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 fire	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dog	nmod

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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