Test 9 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Mink and the Wolf, part 1: a sly mink tric…
bro how did the mink even get out of the hut?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: get out · To what, where: hut
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | vocative |
| 2 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 get | advmod |
| 3 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | aux |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mink | det |
| 5 | mink | mink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 7 get | advmod |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hut | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hut | det |
| 11 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · do-support | the hut | bro vocative | 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
He wriggled out through the tiny knot-hole in the wall
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 wriggled | nsubj |
| 2 | wriggled | wriggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 wriggled | compound:prt |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 hole | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 hole | det |
| 6 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 hole | amod |
| 7 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 knot | punct |
| 9 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wriggled | obl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 wall | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wall | det |
| 12 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hole | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wriggle out | past | He | the tiny knot hole in the wall | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
He escaped through a small hole in the wall of the hut
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 escaped | nsubj |
| 2 | escaped | escape | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hole | det |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | amod |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 escaped | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wall | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wall | det |
| 9 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hole | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hut | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 hut | det |
| 12 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wall | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | escape | past | He | a small hole in the wall of the hut | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through hole=Initial_Location |
Option 3
Through the chimney
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 3 chimney | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 chimney | det |
| 3 | chimney | chimney | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Through the knot-hole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Through | through | ADP | _ | 5 hole | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hole | det |
| 3 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hole | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 knot | punct |
| 5 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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