Test 2 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

What's the bear grabbin' hold of, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear grabbin · What happens: be, hold · To what, where: mate

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» 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	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grabbin	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbin	compound
5	grabbin	grabbin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 hold	punct
7	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grabbin	appos
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 mate	case
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 of	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hold	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the bear grabbin						tree rules
2	hold			mate					nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient

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 tail of the fox that he shook off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 tail	det
2	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shook	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 fox	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 tail	nmod
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 shook	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 shook	nsubj
8	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 shook	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shake off	past	the tail of the fox						vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

The bear's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bear	case
4	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The fox's bushy red tail, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fox	case
4	bushy	bushy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tail	amod
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tail	amod
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The fox's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tail	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fox	case
4	tail	tail	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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