Test 3 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…
Dude, what's the deal with the unicorn trick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: deal
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 deal | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 deal | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 deal | det |
| 6 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Dude | appos |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 trick | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 trick | det |
| 9 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 trick | compound |
| 10 | trick | trick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 deal | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Dude | the deal | with the unicorn trick | 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 · ← Mova's choice
He hid behind a tree and the unicorn charged, horn stuck in the trunk
The tree, 14 words
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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 charged | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 unicorn | det |
| 8 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charged | nsubj |
| 9 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 horn | punct |
| 11 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 charged | obj |
| 12 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 horn | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 trunk | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 trunk | det |
| 15 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stuck | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | charge | past | the unicorn | horn | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location horn=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stick | participle | horn not said here | the trunk | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in trunk=Destination |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
He hid behind a tree, and its horn got stuck
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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 got | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 got | cc |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 horn | nmod:poss |
| 9 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 got | nsubj |
| 10 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 11 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | a tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | get | past | tree's horn | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
He hid behind a huge tree and waited until the unicorn charged and got trapped in the bark
The tree, 18 words
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 hid | nsubj |
| 2 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 tree | amod |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hid | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 waited | cc |
| 8 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 hid | conj |
| 9 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 12 charged | mark |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 unicorn | det |
| 11 | unicorn | unicorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 charged | nsubj |
| 12 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 waited | advcl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trapped | cc |
| 14 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 trapped | aux:pass |
| 15 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 hid | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 bark | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 bark | det |
| 18 | bark | bark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 trapped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | He | a huge tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | wait | past | He not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | charge | past | the unicorn | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | trap | past · passive | He not said here | the bark | vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP PP.destination»: in bark=Destination |
Option 4
He sneaked up on it with a spear and a rope
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 sneaked | nsubj |
| 2 | sneaked | sneak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 sneaked | compound:prt |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 sneaked | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 spear | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 spear | det |
| 8 | spear | spear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sneaked | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rope | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 rope | det |
| 11 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spear | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sneak up | past | He | it | with a spear and a rope | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on it=Trajectory |
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