Test 5 · ★ · Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats se…

fam, what can the rat do that the wall can't?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fam · What happens: rat, do

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1227 «Folk Tales, The Husband of the Rat's Daughter: the rats seek the greatest husband» 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 rat	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 rat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 rat	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rat	det
6	rat	rat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	conj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 ca	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 wall	det
10	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ca	nsubj
11	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 ca	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rat	can	fam and the rat						tree rules
2	do	present	fam and the rat						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

chew a hole right through the solid stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	chew	chew	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hole	det
3	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chew	obj
4	right	right	ADV	_	1 chew	advmod
5	through	through	ADP	_	8 stone	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stone	det
7	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stone	amod
8	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 chew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	imperative	you not said here	a hole		the solid stone		right property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Patient

Option 2

reduce it to powder and sand very quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	reduce	reduce	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 reduce	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 powder	mark
4	powder	powder	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 reduce	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sand	cc
6	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 powder	conj
7	very	very	ADV	_	8 quickly	advmod
8	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	4 powder	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reduce	imperative	you not said here	it					vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Causer it=Patient clause=Goal
2	powder	to-infinitive	you not said here					quickly property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

dig under the stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dig	dig	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	under	under	ADP	_	4 stone	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stone	det
4	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dig	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	imperative	you not said here			the stone			vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent under stone=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gnaw right through it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gnaw	gnaw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	right	right	ADV	_	1 gnaw	advmod
3	through	through	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 gnaw	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gnaw	imperative	you not said here			it		right property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=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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