Test 13 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…
Mate, did the girl know wolves are dangerous?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, girl, wolves · What happens: do, know, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mate | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 girl | det |
| 5 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 know | nsubj |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 dangerous | nsubj |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 dangerous | cop |
| 9 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 know | ccomp |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | know | present | the girl | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | wolves | dangerous property | 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
No, she thought wolves were friendly animals that lived in the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 animals | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | cop |
| 7 | friendly | friendly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 animals | amod |
| 8 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 animals | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 woods | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 woods | det |
| 13 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | she | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | wolves | friendly animals | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | friendly animals | the woods | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in wood=Location |
Option 2
No, she had no idea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 had | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 had | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 had | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 idea | det |
| 6 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | she | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
No, she did not know
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | she | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
No, she had never been told anything about wolves in the forest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 told | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 told | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 told | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 told | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 7 told | obj |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 wolves | case |
| 10 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 anything | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 forest | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 forest | det |
| 13 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 told | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | past · perfect · passive | she | the forest | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient anything=Topic |
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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