Test 3 · ★ · Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bea…
wait what did the badger snatch off the grass
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do · To what, where: badger snatch
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1269 «Old Indian Legends, The Avenger, part 6: the ugly baby bear secretly feeds the hungry badgers, and a magic avenger frightens the bears away» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 did | nsubj |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 snatch | det |
| 5 | badger | badger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 snatch | compound |
| 6 | snatch | snatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obj |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 grass | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grass | det |
| 9 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the badger snatch | off the grass | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snatch=Eventuality |
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
a small red clot of bear blood that had fallen from the cub's paw
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clot | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clot | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clot | amod |
| 4 | clot | clot | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 blood | case |
| 6 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | compound |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clot | nmod |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 fallen | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 fallen | aux |
| 10 | fallen | fall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 blood | acl:relcl |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 paw | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 cub | det |
| 13 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 paw | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 cub | case |
| 15 | paw | paw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fallen | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past · perfect | bear blood | the cub's paw | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from paw=Initial_Location |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a little red clot of buffalo blood
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 clot | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clot | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 clot | amod |
| 4 | clot | clot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 blood | nmod:poss |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 buffalo | case |
| 6 | buffalo | buffalo | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 clot | nmod |
| 7 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a small red berry from the bush
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 berry | det |
| 2 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 berry | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 berry | amod |
| 4 | berry | berry | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 bush | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bush | det |
| 7 | bush | bush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 berry | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
a little red feather of the eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 feather | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feather | amod |
| 3 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feather | amod |
| 4 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 eagle | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 eagle | det |
| 7 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feather | nmod |
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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