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Test 8 · ★★ · Wolves and teamwork: family packs, the alpha myth and hunt…

A big wolf lets a little one pin it down during play. Why?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big wolf · What happens: let down · To what, where: little one pin

This is test 8 · ★★ 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

Sentence 1: A big wolf lets a little one pin it down during play.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	nsubj
4	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pin	det
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pin	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pin	compound
8	pin	pin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lets	obj
10	down	down	ADP	_	4 lets	compound:prt
11	during	during	ADP	_	12 play	case
12	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lets	obl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lets	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let down	present	a big wolf	a little one pin			during play		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent pin=Recipient it=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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1

It is really hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hurt	nsubj:pass
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hurt	aux:pass
3	really	really	ADV	_	4 hurt	advmod
4	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	present · passive		It					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The big wolf is weak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 weak	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 weak	cop
5	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the big wolf					weak property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

So play goes on and the small one learns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
2	play	play	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADV	_	3 goes	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 learns	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 learns	nsubj
9	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	present	play						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	learn	present	the small one						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

It wants to be the pup again and be fed by the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 pup	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 pup	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pup	det
6	pup	pup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	xcomp
7	again	again	ADV	_	2 wants	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fed	cc
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 fed	aux:pass
10	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wants	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	13 others	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	It				again		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive		the pup					tree rules
3	feed	infinitive · passive	the others						vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: 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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