Test 10 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Dude, what was the hare trying to do at the river?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dude, hare · What happens: be, try, do · To what, where: hare, river

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1217 «Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Yara and the hare calls up a spell» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hare	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 hare	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hare	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hare	det
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	appos
7	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 hare	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 river	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 river	det
12	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 do	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude	the hare		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the hare not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the hare not said here		the river	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Fish for a meal near the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 meal	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meal	det
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fish	nmod
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 meal	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cross it, since it was too wide to jump

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cross	cross	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Cross	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wide	punct
4	since	since	SCONJ	_	8 wide	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 wide	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wide	cop
7	too	too	ADV	_	8 wide	advmod
8	wide	wide	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cross	parataxis
9	to	to	PART	_	10 jump	mark
10	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wide	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cross	imperative	you not said here	it		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is	past	it		wide property	tree rules
3	jump	to-infinitive				vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Swim across to the far side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swim	swim	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	across	across	ADV	_	1 Swim	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	6 side	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 side	det
5	far	far	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 side	amod
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Swim	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	imperative	you not said here			the far side		across property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to side=Destination

Option 4

Catch a fish quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fish	det
3	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Catch	obj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Catch	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	imperative	you not said here	a fish				quickly property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=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.

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