Test 9 · ★ · Grimm, The Brave Little Tailor, the tailor fools giants, a…
Who gave the tailor the heads up about the plot?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: give up · To what, where: tailor
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tailor | det |
| 4 | tailor | tailor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 heads | det |
| 6 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 gave | obj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 gave | compound:prt |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 plot | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 plot | det |
| 10 | plot | plot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gave | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 gave | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give up | past | the tailor | about the plot | 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
The king's chamberlain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chamberlain | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | chamberlain | chamberlain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
The king's armour-bearer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bearer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bearer | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 armour | punct |
| 6 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A loyal page who served the king's own bedchamber
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 page | det |
| 2 | loyal | loyal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 page | amod |
| 3 | page | page | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 served | nsubj |
| 5 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 king | det |
| 7 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bedchamber | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 king | case |
| 9 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 bedchamber | amod |
| 10 | bedchamber | bedchamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 served | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | a loyal page | the king's own bedchamber | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bedchamber=Attribute |
Option 4
The king's trusted armour-bearer who had overheard it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 king | det |
| 2 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bearer | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 king | case |
| 4 | trusted | trust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 bearer | amod |
| 5 | armour | armour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bearer | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 armour | punct |
| 7 | bearer | bearer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 overheard | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overheard | aux |
| 10 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 bearer | acl:relcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overheard | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | participle | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | overhear | past · perfect | the king's trusted armour bearer | bearer | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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