Test 8 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…

which giant got poked in the chin tho?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: poke · To what, where: giant, chin tho

This is test 8 · ★ 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	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poked	nsubj:pass
3	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 poked	aux:pass
4	poked	poke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 tho	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tho	det
7	chin	chin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tho	compound
8	tho	tho	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 poked	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 poked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past · passive		which giant		the chin tho			vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: subject=Instrument

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

the smallest giant sitting nearest the door of the hall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
2	smallest	small	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 door	amod
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 door	amod
4	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 door	amod
5	nearest	nearest	ADP	_	7 door	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 door	det
7	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 hall	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hall	det
10	hall	hall	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 door	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the giant with the big beard who sits by the fire all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beard	det
2	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beard	amod
3	with	with	ADP	_	6 beard	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beard	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 beard	amod
6	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 sits	nsubj
8	sits	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 beard	acl:relcl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fire	det
11	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sits	obl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 night	det
13	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sits	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	present	the giant big beard				night	by the fire	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by fire=Location

Option 3

the second giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the first giant

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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