Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Whoa, where did the tailor chill while the tree got lugged?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Whoa · What happens: do, lug · To what, where: tailor chill, tree

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Whoa	Whoa	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Whoa	punct
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chill	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chill	compound
7	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 lugged	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 lugged	nsubj:pass
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lugged	aux:pass
12	lugged	lug	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 did	advcl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Whoa	the tailor chill					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chill=Eventuality
2	lug	past · passive		the tree					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: subject=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

Sitting on top of the giant's shoulder all along the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 top	case
3	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	8 shoulder	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 giant	det
6	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoulder	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 giant	case
8	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 top	nmod
9	all	all	ADV	_	12 path	advmod
10	along	along	ADP	_	12 path	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 path	det
12	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Sitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund				top of the giant's shoulder		along the path	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on top=Location

Option 2

Lying in a hammock slung between two tall birch trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 slung	csubj
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 hammock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 hammock	det
4	hammock	hammock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lying	obl
5	slung	sling	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	between	between	ADP	_	10 trees	case
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 trees	nummod
8	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 trees	amod
9	birch	birch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trees	compound
10	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 slung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund				a hammock			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in hammock=Location
2	sling	participle	Lying			two tall birch trees			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent between tree=Destination

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

On a branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 branch	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 branch	det
3	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

In a bush

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 bush	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bush	det
3	bush	bush	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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