Test 9 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the…

What snapped the Lapp's snow-shoes, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: snap · To what, where: snow shoes

This is test 9 · ★ 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	2 snapped	nsubj
2	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lapp	det
4	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Lapp	case
6	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 snow	punct
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snapped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 shoes	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 snapped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past		the Lapp's snow shoes and mate					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location shoe=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 · ✓ the right answer

The fox's wish

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 wish	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 fox	case
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish		the fox						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 branch	det
2	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The rough ice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ice	det
2	rough	rough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ice	amod
3	ice	ice	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The bear's claw

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 claw	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 bear	case
4	claw	claw	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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