Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks th…

Which giant was the one who said let him live?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: giant, one · What happens: be, say, let, live · To what, where: one, giant · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 780 «Household Tales, The Wishing-Cloak: the huntsman tricks the witch, her maid and the lady, and turns the tables on them with salad» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 giant	det
2	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
8	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 let	obj
10	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 let	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	which giant	the one	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	the one		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	let	infinitive		giant	tree rules
4	live	infinitive	giant not said here		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the third giant said it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the third giant	it					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 2

the cloud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cloud	det
2	cloud	cloud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the eldest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eldest	det
2	eldest	eld	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

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

Option 4

the second giant said so

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 giant	det
2	second	second	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 giant	amod
3	giant	giant	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the second giant						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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