Test 1 · ★ · Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nat…
In Little Red Riding Hood the wolf eats grandma. What is true about real wolves?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: grandma, Little Red Riding Hood
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 283 «Wolves in Yellowstone, beavers in Britain and bringing nature back» 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: In Little Red Riding Hood the wolf eats grandma.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | In | in | ADP | _ | 5 Hood | case |
| 2 | Little | Little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hood | amod |
| 3 | Red | Red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Hood | amod |
| 4 | Riding | Riding | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Hood | compound |
| 5 | Hood | Hood | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 eats | obl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eats | nsubj |
| 8 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 eats | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 eats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | the wolf | grandma | Little Red Riding Hood | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grandma=Patient |
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: What is true about real wolves?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 true | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 true | cop |
| 3 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADP | _ | 6 wolves | case |
| 5 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wolves | amod |
| 6 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 true | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 true | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | about real wolves; true property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1
Wolves often dress up as people
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dress | nsubj |
| 2 | often | often | ADV | _ | 3 dress | advmod |
| 3 | dress | dress | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 dress | compound:prt |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 6 people | case |
| 6 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 dress | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dress up | present | Wolves | as people; often property | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Wild wolves are shy and attacks on people are very rare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 wolves | amod |
| 2 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 shy | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 shy | cop |
| 4 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 rare | cc |
| 6 | attacks | attack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rare | nsubj |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 people | case |
| 8 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 attacks | nmod |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 rare | cop |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 rare | advmod |
| 11 | rare | rare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 shy | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Wild wolves | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | attacks on people | rare property | tree rules |
Option 3
Wolves eat people whole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 eat | obj |
| 4 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eat | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | Wolves | people | whole property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent people=Patient |
Option 4
Wolves hunt grandmothers in forests, just as the old stories say
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 | grandmothers | grandmother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | obj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 forests | case |
| 5 | forests | forest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hunt | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 12 say | advmod |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 say | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 stories | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 stories | amod |
| 11 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 say | nsubj |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 hunt | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | present | Wolves | grandmothers | forests | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent grandmother=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present | the old stories | 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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