Test 5 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…

so how did the wolves plan to get the mink, like what was the move?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves · What happens: do, plan, get, be · To what, where: mink

This is test 5 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	3 did	advmod
2	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	3 did	advmod
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolves	det
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plan	nsubj
6	plan	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 plan	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 mink	det
10	mink	mink	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 move	punct
12	like	like	ADP	_	16 move	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 move	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 move	cop
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 move	det
16	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past				tree rules
2	plan	present	the wolves			vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the wolves not said here	the mink		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer mink=Stimulus
4	is	past			like the move	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

A surprise attack at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 attack	det
2	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attack	compound
3	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 attack	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Hunting him in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hunting	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 forest	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 forest	det
5	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	gerund		him = he		the forest			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme in forest=Location

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

A big feast with invitations sent to every wolf in the area

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 invitations	case
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feast	nmod
6	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 feast	acl
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 wolf	case
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 area	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 area	det
12	area	area	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	participle		a big feast with invitations not said here		the area		to every wolf	vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to wolf=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A big feast and invitations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 invitations	cc
5	invitations	invitation	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 feast	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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