Test 5 · ★ · Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10…

the dogs were going mad with barking, mate, ya couldn't sneak past them

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs, ya · What happens: go, bark, not sneak

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1144 «Reynard the Fox, The Wolf and the Fox at the Well, part 10: the hungry wolf and the cunning fox plan a feast of cheese, and the fox tricks the wolf into the bucket» 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.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 going	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 going	aux
4	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	advcl
5	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	with	with	SCONJ	_	7 barking	mark
7	barking	bark	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 mad	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 barking	vocative
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 sneak	punct
11	ya	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	14 sneak	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 sneak	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 sneak	advmod
14	sneak	sneak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mad	parataxis
15	past	past	ADP	_	16 them	case
16	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sneak	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	the dogs		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bark	gerund		mate vocative	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	not sneak	could	ya	past dogs = dog	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme past they=Trajectory

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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

so they hid in the shadow till it stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 shadow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 shadow	det
6	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hid	obl
7	till	till	SCONJ	_	9 stopped	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stopped	nsubj
9	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hid	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	they			the shadow			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in shadow=Location
2	stop	past	shadow						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 2

so they waited behind the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	3 waited	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waited	nsubj
3	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	6 wall	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	they			the wall			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme behind wall=Location

Option 3

so they barked back at the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	back	back	ADV	_	3 barked	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 barked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark back	past	they					at the dogs	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at dog=Stimulus

Option 4

they crept past when no one looked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 crept	nsubj
2	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	past	past	ADV	_	2 crept	advmod
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 looked	advmod
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 looked	nsubj
7	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 crept	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep	past	they					past property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	look	past	no one						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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