Test 4 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

what was the mouse munching when he turned up?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: be, munch, turn up

This is test 4 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	munching	munch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 mouse	acl
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 turned	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 turned	nsubj
8	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 munching	advcl
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 turned	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	is a	past	the mouse	tree rules
2	munch	gerund	the mouse not said here	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	turn up	past	mouse	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

a cake with cream and berries

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cake	det
2	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 cream	case
4	cream	cream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cake	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 berries	cc
6	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 cake	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

an apple

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 apple	det
2	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a corn cob

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cob	det
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cob	compound
3	cob	cob	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a red berry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 berry	det
2	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 berry	amod
3	berry	berry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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