Test 5 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

Why'd the fox reckon the bear couldn't handle the job?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox, bear · What happens: reckon, not handle · To what, where: job

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 reckon	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handle	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 handle	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 handle	advmod
10	handle	handle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	ccomp
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 job	det
12	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 handle	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	would	the fox						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not handle	could	the bear	the job					vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=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 · ✓ the right answer

He can't stand pain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
2	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	can	He	pain					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus

Option 2

He's too big

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 big	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 big	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 big	advmod
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					big property	tree rules

Option 3

He's scared of the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 fire	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fire	det
6	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					of the fire; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

He's too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slow	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 slow	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 slow	advmod
4	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	He					slow property	tree rules

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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