Test 5 · ★ · Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks…

Yo, the fox asked the bee for eyes, what was that all about?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: ask · To what, where: bee

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1244 «Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks the Lapp, the fish and the asp» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 asked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	nsubj
5	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bee	det
7	bee	bee	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 asked	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 eyes	case
9	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 bee	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 all	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 all	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 all	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 all	mark
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 bee	conj
15	about	about	ADV	_	5 asked	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 asked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the fox		the bee			about property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bee=Recipient

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

He needed a spare pair of eyes after getting blinded

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 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pair	det
4	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pair	amod
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 eyes	case
7	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pair	nmod
8	after	after	SCONJ	_	9 getting	mark
9	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 needed	advcl
10	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 getting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	need	past	He	a spare pair of eyes	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot pair=Theme
2	get	gerund	He not said here		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	blind	participle	He not said here		tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He had dropped his eyes and needed to find them

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 dropped	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	aux
3	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eyes	nmod:poss
5	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dropped	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 needed	cc
7	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dropped	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 find	mark
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 needed	xcomp
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 find	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	drop	past · perfect	He	his eyes	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme
2	need	past	He not said here		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	find not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	eyes = eye	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic

Option 3

He had been blinded by the boiling pot and needed spare eyes to go on with his trickery

The tree, 18 words

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 blinded	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blinded	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 blinded	aux:pass
4	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 pot	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pot	det
7	boiling	boiling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pot	compound
8	pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blinded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 needed	cc
10	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blinded	conj
11	spare	spare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eyes	amod
12	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 needed	obj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 go	mark
14	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 needed	advcl
15	on	on	ADV	_	14 go	advmod
16	with	with	ADP	_	18 trickery	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 trickery	nmod:poss
18	trickery	trickery	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blind	past · perfect · passive	the boiling pot	He		tree rules
2	need	past	the boiling pot not said here	spare eyes		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot eye=Theme
3	go on	to-infinitive	the boiling pot not said here		with his trickery	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	trick		his = he			nom trickery «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

He wanted a new pair to see the salmon better

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	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pair	det
4	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pair	amod
5	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 see	mark
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 salmon	det
9	salmon	salmon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obj
10	better	well	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 see	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a new pair					tree rules
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	a new pair not said here	the salmon				well property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer salmon=Stimulus

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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