Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…
Did the tailor get a sweet pad in the palace, or what?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: get · To what, where: sweet pad, palace
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 tailor | det |
| 3 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pad | det |
| 6 | sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 pad | amod |
| 7 | pad | pad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 palace | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 palace | det |
| 10 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pad | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 what | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 what | cc |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 get | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past · do-support | the tailor | a sweet pad | the palace | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent pad=Beneficiary what=Theme |
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
A grand palace room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 room | det |
| 2 | grand | grand | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 room | amod |
| 3 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 room | compound |
| 4 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A fancy tent outside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 tent | det |
| 2 | fancy | fancy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tent | amod |
| 3 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | outside | outside | ADV | _ | 3 tent | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, he got a shed round the back of the stables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 shed | det |
| 6 | shed | shed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 back | det |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 stables | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stables | det |
| 12 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 back | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | a shed | round the back of the stables | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shed=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A special dwelling
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 dwelling | det |
| 2 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dwelling | amod |
| 3 | dwelling | dwelling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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