Test 1 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…

Bro, how did the tailor take down two giants without even touching them?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: tailor · What happens: take down, touch · To what, where: two giants, giants

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 742 «Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a unicorn and a boar, and frightens off his foes» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 take	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tailor	det
6	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	nsubj
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 take	compound:prt
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 giants	nummod
10	giants	giant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
11	without	without	SCONJ	_	13 touching	mark
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 touching	advmod
13	touching	touch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 take	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 touching	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take down	past · do-support	the tailor	two giants				Bro vocative	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent giant=Theme
2	touch	gerund	the tailor not said here	giants = giant					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Co-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 shot arrows until they fought

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 shot	nsubj
2	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	arrows	arrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shot	obj
4	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 fought	mark
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fought	nsubj
6	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 shot	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	He	arrows					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme
2	fight	past	arrows = arrow						vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He hit them with stones until they fought among themselves

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 hit	nsubj
2	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hit	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 stones	case
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hit	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	8 fought	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fought	nsubj
8	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hit	advcl
9	among	among	ADP	_	10 themselves	case
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 fought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	He	them = they				with stones	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with stone=Instrument
2	fight	past	stones = stone					among stones = stone	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He threw rocks

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 threw	nsubj
2	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 threw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past	He	rocks					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He dropped stones on them till they went at each other

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	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dropped	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dropped	obl
6	till	till	SCONJ	_	8 went	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 went	nsubj
8	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 dropped	advcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 each	case
10	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	8 went	obl
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	He	stones				on stones = stone	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme on they=Destination
2	go	past	stones = stone			each			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at each=Location

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