Test 7 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…

what was the bear's big surprise, the stuff she never knew?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big surprise, she, bear · What happens: be, not know, surprise · To what, where: stuff

This is test 7 · ★ 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 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprise	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 bear	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 surprise	amod
7	surprise	surprise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 stuff	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stuff	det
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 surprise	appos
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 knew	nsubj
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 knew	advmod
13	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 stuff	acl:relcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	past	the bear's big surprise		tree rules
2	not know	past	she	the stuff not said here	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer stuff=Stimulus
3	surprise		the bear		nom surprise «feeling transitive»: poss=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

that she loved apples

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 loved	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 loved	nsubj
3	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	apples	apple	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 loved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	she	apples					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer apple=Stimulus

Option 2

that she had a sister

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 sister	det
5	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a sister					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sister=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that she had a brother

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	3 had	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 brother	det
5	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	she	a brother					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

that she was lost

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 lost	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		she					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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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