--- title: Can that lance cut through, like, anything? — Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerg… · tree and pragmatics description: Can that lance cut through, like, anything? Test 7 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1318-pg3454-part43/t7/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerg…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1318-pg3454-part43/) / t7 # Test 7 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the st… Can that lance cut through, like, anything? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** lance · **What happens:** cut This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1318 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Castle of Kerglas, part 43: the stones crush the sorcerer, and Peronnik hears of the magic basin» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1318-pg3454-part43/#t7). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t7:1 # text = Can that lance cut through, like, anything? 1 Can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 2 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 3 det _ _ 3 lance lance NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 cut cut VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 through through ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 7 like like ADP IN _ 9 case _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 7 punct _ _ 9 anything anything PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 ? ? PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **cut** | can | that lance | | | | | like anything; through *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} Nah, just wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t7:o1:1 # text = Nah, just wood 1 Nah nah INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 just just ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 4 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} Nope, it bends on rock, dude ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t7:o2:1 # text = Nope, it bends on rock, dude 1 Nope nope INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 4 nsubj _ _ 4 bends bend VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 on on ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 6 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 dude dude NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **bend** | present | it | | | rock and dude | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ### Option 3 {#o3} Nope, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t7:o3:1 # text = Nope, bro 1 Nope nope INTJ UH _ 3 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} Yep, any rock or metal, bro ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1318-pg3454-part43:t7:o4:1 # text = Yep, any rock or metal, bro 1 Yep yep INTJ UH _ 4 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 3 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 rock rock NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 5 or or CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 metal metal NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 bro bro NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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. 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