Test 8 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Cunning Hare, part 18: Alonzo faces the Ya…

Bro, why'd he bury fish under a stone?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: bury · To what, where: fish, stone

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bury	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bury	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 bury	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bury	nsubj
6	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bury	obj
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 stone	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 stone	det
10	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bury	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bury	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	would	he	fish		a stone		Bro vocative	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fish=Theme under stone=Destination

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

So he could find them later for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 find	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	he	them = they				for dinner; late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary

Option 2

So he could find them later for dinner, since grandma could not cook without fire

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 find	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cook	punct
10	since	since	SCONJ	_	14 cook	mark
11	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 cook	aux
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 cook	advmod
14	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 find	conj
15	without	without	ADP	_	16 fire	case
16	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cook	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	could	he	them = they				for dinner; late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary
2	not cook	could	grandma					without fire	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent

Option 3

So he could find them later for dinner and share them with the wizard who visited

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	4 find	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	nsubj
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 find	aux
4	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 find	obj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 find	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 dinner	case
8	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 find	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 share	cc
10	share	share	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 find	conj
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 share	obj
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 wizard	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 wizard	det
14	wizard	wizard	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 share	obl
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 visited	nsubj
16	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wizard	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	find	could	he	them = they	for dinner; late property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for dinner=Beneficiary
2	share	present	he not said here	them = they	with the wizard	tree rules
3	visit	past	the wizard			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

So the fox would not find them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	6 find	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 find	advmod
6	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not find	would	the fox	them = they					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

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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