Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize,…

what's the deal with the hill, was it tiny?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: deal · What happens: be

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 726 «Grimm, The Golden Bird, part 2: brothers steal the prize, Hans sets off home» 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	11 tiny	obl
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 deal	det
4	deal	deal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 hill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 hill	det
7	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 deal	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 tiny	cop
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 tiny	nsubj
11	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 tiny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the deal with the hill						tree rules
2	is	past	deal					tiny 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

Tiny, but very heavy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Tiny	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 heavy	cc
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 heavy	advmod
5	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tiny	conj

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

Option 2

Huge, a whole mountain of rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountain	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Huge	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mountain	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mountain	amod
5	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 rock	case
7	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mountain	nmod

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Huge, the whole world couldn't move it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 move	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Huge	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 world	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 world	amod
5	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 move	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 move	advmod
8	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 move	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not move	could	the whole world	it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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