Test 7 · ★ · Tales of Adventure, Walter and the Wolf: Walter flees a "w…

Why'd the poor ram get eaten, you reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: eat, reckon · To what, where: poor ram

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 eaten	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ram	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ram	amod
5	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eaten	nsubj:pass
6	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 eaten	aux:pass
7	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 reckon	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eaten	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 reckon	nsubj
10	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would · passive		the poor ram					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	reckon	present	you						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Wolves killed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Wolves	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

Walter's dog Caro chased and ate it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Walter	Walter	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	nmod:poss
2	's	's	PART	_	1 Walter	case
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chased	nsubj
4	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dog	appos
5	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chased	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	Walter's dog						vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	eat	past	Walter's dog not said here	dog					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Hunger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Caro ate it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Caro	Caro	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 ate	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	Caro	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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