Test 5 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Was Walter well brave, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: Walter

This is test 5 · ★ 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	2 Walter	cop
2	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 brave	nsubj
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 brave	advmod
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nah	punct
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 nah	cc
7	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 brave	discourse
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Walter					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

He was often scared

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 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
3	often	often	ADV	_	4 scared	advmod
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					often, scared property	tree rules

Option 2

He fought off a pack of wolves alone

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 fought	compound:prt
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 pack	det
5	pack	pack	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wolves	case
7	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pack	nmod
8	alone	alone	ADV	_	2 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight off	past	He	a pack of wolves				alone property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Co-Agent

Option 3

He lied about wolves

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 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADP	_	4 wolves	case
4	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lied	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	He					about wolves	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about wolf=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He boasted a lot

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 boasted	nsubj
2	boasted	boast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 lot	det
4	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boasted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boast speech: other	past	He	a lot					tree rules

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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