Test 11 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

fr, why couldn't the wolves follow him through that hole?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr · What happens: not follow · To what, where: him, hole

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1190 «Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tricks a hungry wolf, then outwits the whole wolf pack's revenge plan» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 follow	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 follow	advmod
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 follow	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 follow	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolves	det
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 follow	nsubj
8	follow	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 follow	obj
10	through	through	ADP	_	12 hole	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 hole	det
12	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 follow	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 follow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not follow	could	fr	him = he		that hole			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme through hole=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 hole was much too small for their big bodies to fit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 small	cop
4	much	much	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 small	advmod
6	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	10 bodies	case
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 bodies	nmod:poss
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 bodies	amod
10	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 small	obl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 fit	mark
12	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bodies	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hole					for their big bodies; small property	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	the hole not said here						vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

It was too small for them

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 small	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 small	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 small	advmod
4	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 small	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	It					for them = they; small property	tree rules

Option 3

They were too big

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	4 big	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					big property	tree rules

Option 4

The hole was too tiny

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hole	det
2	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tiny	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tiny	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tiny	advmod
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hole					tiny property	tree rules

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