Test 6 · ★ · Far North Tales, The Fox and the Reindeer: the fox tricks…

Mate, that fish race was mad, who even won?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, win

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 mad	mark
4	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 race	compound
5	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	cop
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 won	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 won	nsubj
10	even	even	ADV	_	11 won	advmod
11	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 mad	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Mate					mad property	tree rules
2	win	participle							vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Nobody won, because the fox got stuck in the middle and the Lapp called the race off

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 got	punct
4	because	because	SCONJ	_	7 got	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 got	nsubj
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	advcl
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 middle	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 middle	det
11	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 stuck	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 called	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lapp	det
14	Lapp	Lapp	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 called	nsubj
15	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 won	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 race	det
17	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 called	obj
18	off	off	ADP	_	15 called	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win	past	Nobody			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	get	past	the fox		stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	call off speech: assert	past	the Lapp	the race		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent race=Recipient

Option 2

The eel, who swam fastest of all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eel	det
2	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swam	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swam	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swam	nsubj
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fastest	csubj
6	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 fastest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the eel						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The pike, who yelled that it had won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pike	det
2	pike	pike	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yelled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 yelled	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 yelled	nsubj
5	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 won	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 won	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 won	aux
9	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 yelled	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yell speech: express	past	the pike						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	win	past · perfect	pike						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The eel won

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eel	det
2	eel	eel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the eel						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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