Test 10 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trad…

What was the eleventh rod even for?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 769 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Lily and the Lion, part 45: Lily trades her golden dress for one night, but the prince sleeps through it» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rod	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rod	det
4	eleventh	eleventh	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 rod	amod
5	rod	rod	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 for	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	5 rod	case
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						for the eleventh rod	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

to break the spell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 break	mark
2	break	break	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 spell	det
4	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 break	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	to-infinitive		the spell					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer spell=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

to smite the dragon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 smite	mark
2	smite	smite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dragon	det
4	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 smite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smite	to-infinitive		the dragon					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus dragon=Experiencer

Option 3

to fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 fight	mark
2	fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	to-infinitive							vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to open the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 open	mark
2	open	open	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gate	det
4	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 open	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	to-infinitive		the gate					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gate=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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