Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Was the king buzzing or gutted about the tailor?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: king buzzing

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buzzing	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 buzzing	det
3	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buzzing	compound
4	buzzing	buzzing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	or	or	CCONJ	_	4 buzzing	cc
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 buzzing	acl
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 tailor	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tailor	det
9	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 buzzing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the king buzzing					tree rules
2	gut	participle		the king buzzing not said here				about the tailor	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

Chuffed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle							tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Chuffed he had met him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 met	advcl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	participle	he not said here						tree rules
2	meet	past · perfect	he	him = he					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent

Option 3

Glad, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mate	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Glad	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Gutted he had met him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 met	advcl
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	aux
4	met	meet	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	he not said here						vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	meet	past · perfect	he	him = he					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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