Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Was the tailor, like, scared of the giants in the cave?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tailor

This is test 7 · ★ 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	3 tailor	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tailor	det
3	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 like	compound
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 tailor	punct
5	like	like	INTJ	_	7 scared	discourse
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 like	punct
7	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 giants	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 giants	det
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 scared	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 cave	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 cave	det
13	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 giants	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the tailor					tree rules

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

Yeah, dead scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 scared	amod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, he was well shook

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 shook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shook	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 shook	aux:pass
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 shook	advmod
6	shook	shake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake	past · passive		he				well property	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: subject=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, he was dead cheeky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 cheeky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheeky	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cheeky	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cheeky	amod
6	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					cheeky property	tree rules

Option 4

Not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 all	advmod
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 all	case
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

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