Test 1 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

why did the wolverine start that race, mate?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: wolverine start

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1226 «Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolverine tricks a bear up a tree after a rock, lightning and a torn coat» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 start	det
4	wolverine	wolverine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	compound
5	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 start	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 race	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wolverine start					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Eventuality

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

he was bored and wanted a laugh

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 laugh	det
7	laugh	laugh	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here	a laugh					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot laugh=Theme

Option 2

he was bored and wanted to show how fast he was

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	conj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 show	mark
7	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 show	advmod
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 fast	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	he	bored property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	show not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	fast property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was lost and wanted fun

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	3 lost	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	aux:pass
3	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 lost	conj
6	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	want	participle							vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 4

because the rock had insulted his running and he wanted revenge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 insulted	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insulted	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 insulted	aux
5	insulted	insult	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 running	nmod:poss
7	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 insulted	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wanted	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 wanted	nsubj
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 insulted	conj
11	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	insult	past · perfect · passive		the rock	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer running=Result
2	want	past	he	revenge	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme
3	run		his = he		nom running «act intransitive»: 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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