Test 11 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Was the crow the real danger, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: crow

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 crow	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 danger	csubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 danger	amod
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 danger	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the crow					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, Caro was the danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 danger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 danger	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 danger	det
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

No, the wolf was danger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 danger	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 danger	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 danger	cop
6	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Yes, the crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 crow	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Yes it was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 was	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 was	nsubj
3	was	be	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	be	past	it						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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