Test 4 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…
wait the grandma knew it was her grandson's skin just by looking?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, grandma, it · What happens: wait, know, be, look · To what, where: skin · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 grandma | det |
| 3 | grandma | grandma | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | nsubj |
| 4 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 skin | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 skin | cop |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 grandson | nmod:poss |
| 8 | grandson | grandson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 skin | nmod:poss |
| 9 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 8 grandson | case |
| 10 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 knew | ccomp |
| 11 | just | just | ADV | _ | 13 looking | advmod |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 looking | mark |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 knew | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | know | past | the grandma | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | it | grandma's grandson's skin | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look | gerund | the grandma not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Yeah, she guessed it straight away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 guessed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | she | it | away property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, she guessed it straight away from the smell and the colour
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 guessed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 guessed | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | nsubj |
| 4 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 guessed | obj |
| 6 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 7 away | advmod |
| 7 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 guessed | advmod |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 smell | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 smell | det |
| 10 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 guessed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 colour | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 colour | det |
| 13 | colour | colour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 smell | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess | past | she | it | the smell and the colour | away property | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, she spotted it fast
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 spotted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 spotted | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spotted | nsubj |
| 4 | spotted | spot | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 spotted | obj |
| 6 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 spotted | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spot | past | she | it | fast property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination |
Option 4
Nah, she only realised after she searched the whole cottage for clues
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 realised | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 realised | nsubj |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 realised | advmod |
| 5 | realised | realise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 8 searched | mark |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 searched | nsubj |
| 8 | searched | search | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 realised | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cottage | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cottage | amod |
| 11 | cottage | cottage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 searched | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 clues | case |
| 13 | clues | clue | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 searched | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realise | past | she | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | search | past | she | the whole cottage | for clues | vn search-35.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent cottage=Location for clue=Theme |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1190-pg3027-part56/t4/