Test 10 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Real talk, why was the wolf so peckish?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wolf

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1426 «Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks the girl and eats her and her grandmother» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wolf	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 wolf	advmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wolf	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 talk	appos
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 peckish	advmod
9	peckish	peckish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wolf	amod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the 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 · ← Mova's choice

He had eaten only berries

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	3 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 eaten	aux
3	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 berries	advmod
5	berries	berry	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect	He	berries					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent berry=Patient

Option 2

He was hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

He was bored

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	3 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 bored	cop
3	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He had not eaten for days

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 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	He				day		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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