Test 1 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

So who was the big bad wolf, like, really?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big bad wolf

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1288 «Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "wolf" that turns out to be his dog Caro» 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	So	so	ADV	_	7 wolf	advmod
2	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 wolf	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
9	like	like	INTJ	_	7 wolf	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 like	punct
11	really	really	ADV	_	7 wolf	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the big bad wolf					tree rules

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 neighbour's gray hound that chased sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 neighbour	det
2	neighbour	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hound	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 neighbour	case
4	gray	gray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hound	amod
5	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 chased	nsubj
7	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hound	acl:relcl
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	the neighbour's gray hound	sheep					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A large wolf that ate the ram in the kiln

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ram	det
7	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kiln	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kiln	det
10	kiln	kiln	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a large wolf	the ram		the kiln			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Caro, Walter's dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 dog	punct
3	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dog	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Walter	case
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Caro	appos

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

Option 4

Walter's big dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Walter	case
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dog	amod
4	dog	dog	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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