Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Brave Little Tailor, part 17: the…

Bet the giants were well scared at dawn, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, giants · What happens: bet, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giants	det
3	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 scared	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Bet	ccomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 dawn	case
8	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 scared	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct
10	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	1 Bet	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the giants				dawn	scared, well property	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

They begged for mercy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	4 mercy	case
4	mercy	mercy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	They					for mercy	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for mercy=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, they hid

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hid	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hid	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hid	nsubj
4	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they						vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	They						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

They legged it quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	nsubj
2	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 legged	obj
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 legged	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leg	past	They	it				quick property	tree rules

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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