Test 1 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

«Big Bad Wolf blew the house down, wolves r evil» What is the real picture?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Big Bad Wolf · What happens: blow down, be · To what, where: house, real picture · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★★ of lesson 240 «Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunting together» of the biology 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	«	«	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct
2	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wolf	amod
3	Bad	Bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Wolf	amod
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 picture	csubj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 house	det
7	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	obj
8	down	down	ADP	_	5 blew	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 r	punct
10	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 r	nsubj
11	r	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 blew	conj
12	evil	evil	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 r	obj
13	»	»	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 picture	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 picture	cop
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 picture	det
17	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 picture	amod
18	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	18 picture	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down in a quote	past	Big Bad Wolf	the house					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient
2	is a	present		the real picture					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

Wolves hunt children for fun, just like in the fairy tales

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 tales	punct
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 tales	advmod
8	like	like	ADP	_	12 tales	case
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 tales	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tales	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 tales	compound
12	tales	tale	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	Wolves	children				for fun; like the fairy tales	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent child=Location for fun=Theme

Option 2

Wolves often blow houses down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blow	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 blow	advmod
3	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 blow	obj
5	down	down	ADV	_	3 blow	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow down	present	Wolves	houses				down, often property	vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent house=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Real wolves rarely attack people and usually avoid them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wolves	amod
2	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attack	nsubj
3	rarely	rarely	ADV	_	4 attack	advmod
4	attack	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 attack	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 avoid	cc
7	usually	usually	ADV	_	8 avoid	advmod
8	avoid	avoid	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 attack	conj
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 avoid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	present	Real wolves	people				rarely property	vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient
2	avoid	present	Real wolves not said here	people				usually property	vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent they=Location

Option 4

Wolves live in houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	nsubj
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	4 houses	case
4	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 live	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	Wolves			houses			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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