Test 9 · ★ · Northern Tales, The Wicked Wolverine, part 27: the wolveri…
what did the wolverine want the lightning to do for him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wolverine, lightning · What happens: do, want · To what, where: lightning
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolverine | det |
| 4 | wolverine | wolverine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nsubj |
| 5 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 did | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lightning | det |
| 7 | lightning | lightning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 do | mark |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 want | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 do | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | want | present | the wolverine | the lightning | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lightning not said here | for wolverine | vn act-114-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer
free his legs and take his coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legs | amod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 take | cc |
| 5 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 legs | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 coat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 take | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | infinitive | his coat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent coat=Theme |
Option 2
free his tail and mend his hat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 tail | nmod:poss |
| 3 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 free | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 mend | cc |
| 5 | mend | mend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 free | conj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 hat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mend | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mend | infinitive | tail's hat | tree rules |
Option 3
give him back his coat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 give | iobj |
| 3 | back | back | ADP | _ | 1 give | compound:prt |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 coat | nmod:poss |
| 5 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 give | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give back | imperative | you not said here | his coat | him = he | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient coat=Theme |
Option 4
free his legs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 legs | amod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 legs | nmod:poss |
| 3 | legs | leg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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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