Test 9 · ★ · Danish Fairy and Folk Tales, Rasmus and Niels, part 49: Ni…
what were the giants trying to snatch from the castle?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giants · What happens: be, try, snatch · To what, where: giants, castle
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 giants | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 giants | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 giants | det |
| 4 | giants | giant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 giants | acl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 snatch | mark |
| 7 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 trying | xcomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 castle | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 castle | det |
| 10 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 giants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the giants | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | gerund | the giants not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | snatch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the giants not said here | the castle | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from castle=Source |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the princess
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the silver cup
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cup | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cup | compound |
| 3 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the castle gold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 gold | det |
| 2 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gold | compound |
| 3 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the princess and all the gold in the castle hall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 princess | det |
| 2 | princess | princess | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 gold | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 gold | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 gold | det |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | conj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 hall | det |
| 9 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hall | compound |
| 10 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 princess | 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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