Test 5 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Did the giant carry the tree or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: giant · What happens: carry · To what, where: tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 carry	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
3	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 carry	nsubj
4	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carry	obj
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 carry	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 carry	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past · do-support	the giant	the tree					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=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

He dropped it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	nsubj
2	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	He	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He carried it, dragging

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	nsubj
2	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 carried	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dragging	punct
5	dragging	drag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 carried	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	past	He	it					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	drag	gerund	He not said here						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He lifted it, huffing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	nsubj
2	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lifted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 huffing	punct
5	huffing	huff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 lifted	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	past	He	it					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	huff	gerund	He not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

No, he fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	he						vn occur-48.3 «NP 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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