Test 3 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Wait, what did the giant make the stone do, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, giant, stone · What happens: wait, make, do, like · To what, where: stone

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 make	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 make	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 make	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Wait	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 stone	det
9	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 like	punct
12	like	like	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	make	past · do-support	the giant	the stone	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	the stone not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	like	infinitive			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Turn the stone into a bird that flew away over the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 bird	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turn	obl
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	away	away	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	over	over	ADP	_	12 hills	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 hills	det
12	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	imperative	you not said here	the stone				into a bird result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent stone=Theme into bird=Result
2	fly away	past	a bird			the hills		away property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over hill=Location

Option 2

Make it sing loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Make	obj
3	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sing	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	it					tree rules
2	sing speech: express	infinitive						loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Make the stone roll down the mountain and crack open

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 roll	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 roll	compound
4	roll	roll	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	down	down	ADP	_	7 mountain	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mountain	det
7	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 crack	cc
9	crack	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Make	conj
10	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 crack	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	the stone roll				down the mountain	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset roll=Product
2	crack	present	you not said here					open property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Let water drop out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Let	obj
3	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 drop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	water					tree rules
2	drop out	infinitive	water not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

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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