Test 1 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Oi mate, what's the tailor's massive boast on his belt?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi mate · What happens: be · To what, where: massive boast, belt

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 741 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the tailor tricks the giants and wins a place at the king's court» 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	Oi	Oi	X	_	2 mate	compound
2	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 boast	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 boast	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 boast	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tailor	det
7	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boast	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 tailor	case
9	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 boast	amod
10	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 mate	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 belt	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 belt	nmod:poss
13	belt	belt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 boast	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Oi mate and the tailor's massive boast	the tailor's massive boast		tailor's belt			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

Seven flies swatted with one whack of my mighty fists

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 flies	nummod
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	swatted	swat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flies	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 whack	case
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 whack	nummod
6	whack	whack	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swatted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 fists	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 fists	nmod:poss
9	mighty	mighty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fists	amod
10	fists	fist	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 whack	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swat	participle		Seven flies not said here				with one whack of my mighty fists	vn swat-18.2 «NP V PP PP»: agent=Agent with whack=Instrument
2	whack			my mighty fists					nom whack «event transitive»: of=patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Seven at one stroke

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 stroke	case
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 stroke	nummod
4	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seven	nmod

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

Option 3

Dead giants and seven at one stroke, mate, proper legend

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 giants	amod
2	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stroke	cc
4	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stroke	nsubj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 stroke	case
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 stroke	nummod
7	stroke	stroke	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giants	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stroke	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 legend	punct
11	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 legend	amod
12	legend	legend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 giants	conj

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

Option 4

Seven whacks in one go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 whacks	nsubj
2	whacks	whack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 go	case
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 go	nummod
5	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 whacks	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	present	Seven			one go			vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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