Test 12 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Bruv, what did the wolf say his teeth were for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bruv, wolf · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 teeth	nmod:poss
9	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 for	nsubj
10	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 for	cop
11	for	for	ADP	_	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Bruv						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the wolf						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that 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

To gobble her up before anyone in the village could come to help her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 gobble	mark
2	gobble	gobble	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gobble	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gobble	compound:prt
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 come	mark
6	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 come	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 village	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 village	det
9	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 anyone	nmod
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 come	aux
11	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 gobble	advcl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 help	mark
13	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 come	xcomp
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	gobble up	to-infinitive		her = she		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	come	could	anyone			tree rules
3	help	to-infinitive	anyone not said here		her = she	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

Option 2

To bite her well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 bite	mark
2	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 bite	obj
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 bite	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	to-infinitive		her = she				well property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

To eat her up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 eat	compound:prt

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

Option 4

To eat her and her grandmother up together in the bed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 eat	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 grandmother	cc
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grandmother	nmod:poss
6	grandmother	grandmother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 her	conj
7	up	up	ADV	_	8 together	advmod
8	together	together	ADV	_	2 eat	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bed	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bed	det
11	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obl

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

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