Test 12 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier'…

what's a tan-heap even, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: tan heap

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 771 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Blue Light, part 47: the soldier's pipe calls the manikin, and a queen's child becomes a raven» 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	6 heap	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 heap	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 heap	det
4	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heap	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 tan	punct
6	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	even	even	ADV	_	6 heap	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fam	punct
9	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heap	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 heap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		a tan heap and fam					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

a big pile of old straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pile	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pile	amod
3	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 straw	case
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 straw	amod
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pile	nmod

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

Option 2

a heap of tanned hides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 hides	case
4	tanned	tan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 hides	amod
5	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 heap	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tan	participle							vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a heap of wood for making fires

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 wood	case
4	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 heap	acl
7	fires	fire	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	a heap of wood not said here	fires					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset fire=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a pile of bark for making leather

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 pile	det
2	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 bark	case
4	bark	bark	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pile	nmod
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 making	mark
6	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 pile	acl
7	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 making	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	gerund	a pile of bark not said here	leather					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset leather=Product

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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