--- title: What's the big sword called? — English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p… · tree and pragmatics description: What's the big sword called? Test 8 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the que --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1960-pg7439-part19/t8/) [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/) / [English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, p…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1960-pg7439-part19/) / t8 # Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr… What's the big sword called? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** big sword · **What happens:** be, call · **To what, where:** big sword · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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/1960-pg7439-part19/#t8). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t8:1 # text = What's the big sword called? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 big big ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 amod _ _ 5 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ _ 6 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 acl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the big sword | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **call** | participle | | the big sword *not said here* | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} The good brand ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t8:o1:1 # text = The good brand 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 2 {#o2} The sword of the old king ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t8:o2:1 # text = The sword of the old king 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 sword sword NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 king king NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} The brand that never struck in vain ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t8:o3:1 # text = The brand that never struck in vain 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 brand brand NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 5 obj _ _ 4 never never ADV RB PronType=Neg 5 advmod _ _ 5 struck strike VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 acl:relcl _ _ 6 in in ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 7 vain vain ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **strike** | past | | the brand | | vain | | | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Patient | ### Option 4 {#o4} The blade of his father's hall ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1960-pg7439-part19:t8:o4:1 # text = The blade of his father's hall 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 blade blade NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 father father NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 6 's 's PART POS _ 5 case _ _ 7 hall hall NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ ``` 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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