Test 4 · ★ · Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big…

how did the dogs get the bear to run? they just barked super loud, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: get, run, bark · To what, where: bear

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1222 «Lang's Fairy Book, How the Little Brother Set Free His Big Brothers, part 2: the bear chief's servant lures the hunters into the mountain» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dogs	det
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 run	mark
9	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 bear	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 barked	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 barked	advmod
13	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 get	parataxis
14	super	super	ADV	_	15 loud	advmod
15	loud	loud	ADV	_	13 barked	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	5 get	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the dogs	the bear		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Stimulus
2	run	to-infinitive	the dogs not said here	the bear not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	bark	past	dogs = dog		loud property	vn animal_sounds-38 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nope, they bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	they	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2

Nah, they sniffed at the trees a lot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sniffed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sniffed	nsubj
4	sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 trees	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 trees	det
7	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 sniffed	obl
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 lot	det
9	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sniffed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past	they	a lot				at the trees	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at tree=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, loud barks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 barks	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 barks	amod
4	barks	bark	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they barked and scared him out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 barked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 scared	cc
6	scared	scare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 barked	conj
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 scared	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	they						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	scare out	past	they not said here	him = he					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

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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