Test 8 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

Why'd the Lapp open the bag early, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lapp · What happens: open · To what, where: bag

This is test 8 · ★ 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 open	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 open	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lapp	det
4	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 open	nsubj
5	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bag	det
7	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 open	obj
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 open	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	5 open	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 open	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	would	the Lapp	the bag				early property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=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

He had a little doubt

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	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 doubt	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 doubt	amod
5	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

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

Option 2

He was too eager

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 eager	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eager	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 eager	advmod
4	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He wanted one peep

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	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 peep	nummod
4	peep	peep	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	one peep					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot peep=Theme

Option 4

He was curious

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 curious	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 curious	cop
3	curious	curious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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