Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…

Peng or what, where was the rock the princess sat on?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: princess · What happens: be, sit on · To what, where: rock

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 768 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the brothers save the princess and share the reward» 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	Peng	Peng	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
2	or	or	CCONJ	_	3 what	cc
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rock	punct
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 rock	advmod
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rock	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rock	det
8	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	appos
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 princess	det
10	princess	princess	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sat	nsubj
11	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 rock	acl:relcl
12	on	on	ADP	_	11 sat	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rock					tree rules
2	sit on	past	the princess	the rock not said here					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location rock=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

In a cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cave	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

On a rock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	3 rock	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

On a rocky island far out to sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	On	on	ADP	_	4 island	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 island	det
3	rocky	rocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 island	amod
4	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	obl
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 out	advmod
6	out	out	ADV	_	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 sea	case
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 out	obl

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 sea	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 sea	det
3	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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