Test 2 · ★ · More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part…

bruh why does the wolf just let them sew him up?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: them · What happens: let, sew up · To what, where: them, him

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 1294 «More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Story of a Very Bad Boy, part 1: Toueno-Boueno catches a wolf by the tail and sells it as a ram, and the wolf ruins the brothers' sheep» 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	7 let	discourse
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 let	advmod
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 does	obj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 let	advmod
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 let	obj
9	sew	sew	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 let	xcomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 sew	obj
11	up	up	ADP	_	9 sew	compound:prt
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 let	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	let	present · do-support		them = they					tree rules
2	sew up	infinitive	them = they not said here	him = he					vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Product

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

Cause he's scared of the dogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 dogs	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dogs	det
7	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of the dogs; scared property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he's playing it cool till later, when he plans to eat every sheep in the fold

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 playing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	obj
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 playing	xcomp
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 later	case
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 playing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 plans	punct
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	12 plans	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 plans	nsubj
12	plans	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	parataxis
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 plans	xcomp
15	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	16 sheep	det
16	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 fold	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fold	det
19	fold	fold	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	he	it		cool property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	plan	present	he				vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	every sheep	the fold		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=Patient

Option 3

Cause he wants the sheep for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wants	nsubj
3	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sheep	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 dinner	case
7	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wants	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	Cause	the sheep				for dinner	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot sheep=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he's playing it cool till later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	4 playing	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	obj
6	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 playing	xcomp
7	till	till	ADP	_	8 later	case
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 playing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	present · progressive	he	it				cool property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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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