Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras ki…

Like, what's the wildest bit about the dog?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wildest bit · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1195 «Fairy Book (pg3027), The White Slipper, part 61: Andras kills the Stalo's dog and takes his gold, then the sick king gets a magic slipper» 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	Like	like	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Like	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bit	det
6	wildest	wild	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bit	amod
7	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 dog	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bit	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the wildest bit about the dog						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 · ✓ the right answer

Its licking can wake a dead master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 licking	nmod:poss
2	licking	licking	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wake	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 wake	aux
4	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 master	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake	can	Its licking	a dead master					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent master=Patient

Option 2

It barks loud

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	2 barks	nsubj
2	barks	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loud	loud	ADV	_	2 barks	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	present	It					loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

It can run across the fiord

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	3 run	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 run	aux
3	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	across	across	ADP	_	6 fiord	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fiord	det
6	fiord	fiord	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 run	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	can	It			the fiord			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across fiord=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Its bite can kill a grown man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 bite	nmod:poss
2	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 kill	aux
4	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kill	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	kill	can	Its bite	a grown man	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme
2	grow	participle			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bite		Its = it		nom bite «state transitive»: poss=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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