Test 11 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Innit a bit wild that the wolf gobbled her up too?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: innit, gobble up · To what, where: bit, her

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bit	det
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Innit	obj
4	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 gobbled	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gobbled	nsubj
8	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Innit	advcl
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gobbled	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 gobbled	compound:prt
11	too	too	ADV	_	8 gobbled	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	innit	imperative	you not said here	a bit					tree rules
2	gobble up	past	the wolf	her = she					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

No, he only ate cake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj

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

Option 2

Yes, he gobbled her up in one bite and then went back to sleep

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gobbled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gobbled	nsubj
4	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gobbled	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 gobbled	compound:prt
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 bite	case
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 bite	nummod
9	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gobbled	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 went	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gobbled	conj
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sleep	mark
15	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	gobble up	past	he	her = she	one bite		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	go back	past	he not said here			then	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	sleep	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, he ate her all up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	ADV	_	7 up	advmod
7	up	up	ADV	_	4 ate	advmod

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

Option 4

Yes, he ate her grandma

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandma	nmod:poss
6	grandma	grandma	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj

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

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