Test 13 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

bruh the mink was so polite and smiley, what was his trick?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mink · What happens: be · To what, where: trick

This is test 13 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 polite	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mink	det
3	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 polite	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 polite	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 polite	advmod
6	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 smiley	cc
8	smiley	smiley	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 polite	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trick	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 trick	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 trick	cop
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 trick	nmod:poss
13	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 polite	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 polite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the mink		polite property	tree rules
2	be		the mink not said here			tree rules
3	is a	past		mink's trick		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 · ← Mova's choice

He was nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 nice	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nice	cop
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

He hid his rage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 rage	nmod:poss
4	rage	rage	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He	his rage					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rage=Patient
2	rage		his = he						nom rage «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He was just kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kind	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 kind	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 kind	advmod
4	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He smiled while plotting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smiled	nsubj
2	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	while	while	SCONJ	_	4 plotting	mark
4	plotting	plot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 smiled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	He						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	plot	gerund	He not said here						vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: 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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