Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Four Skillful Brothers: the broth…
Gutted, what did the huntsman refuse to do at first?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: huntsman · What happens: gut, refuse, not do
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 refuse | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 refuse | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 refuse | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 huntsman | det |
| 6 | huntsman | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 refuse | nsubj |
| 7 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 refuse | xcomp |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 first | case |
| 11 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 refuse | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | the huntsman not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | refuse | past · do-support | the huntsman | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not do | to-infinitive | the huntsman not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
Take a shot at the sleeping dragon in the cave
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Take | take | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 shot | det |
| 3 | shot | shot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 dragon | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 dragon | det |
| 6 | sleeping | sleeping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dragon | compound |
| 7 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Take | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | imperative | you not said here | a shot | the cave | at the sleeping dragon | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shot=Value in cave=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Shoot the dragon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shoot | shoot | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 dragon | det |
| 3 | dragon | dragon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Shoot | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | imperative | you not said here | the dragon | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dragon=Theme |
Option 3
Attack the beast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Attack | attack | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 beast | det |
| 3 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Attack | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attack | imperative | you not said here | the beast | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beast=Patient |
Option 4
Fire an arrow at the great beast in the water
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrow | compound |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 arrow | det |
| 3 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 beast | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 beast | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 beast | amod |
| 7 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 arrow | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 water | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 water | det |
| 10 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beast | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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