Test 9 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, Little Red Riding-Hood: the wolf tricks t…

Was it a bit mint of the girl to stop and pick flowers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, stop, pick · To what, where: bit mint, flowers

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 mint	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Was	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mint	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mint	compound
5	mint	mint	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 girl	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girl	det
8	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mint	nmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 stop	mark
10	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 mint	acl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 pick	cc
12	pick	pick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 stop	conj
13	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 pick	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 mint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	a bit mint	of the girl	tree rules
2	stop	to-infinitive			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	pick	infinitive	flowers		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient

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

Yes, it gave the wolf plenty of time to reach the house first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plenty	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plenty	compound
7	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plenty	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 reach	mark
11	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 gave	advcl
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 house	det
13	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 reach	obj
14	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 reach	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	it	the wolf plenty of time					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=Theme
2	reach	to-infinitive		the house				first property	vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme

Option 2

No, it was very sensible

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 sensible	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sensible	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sensible	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 sensible	advmod
6	sensible	sensible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it made the wolf's day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	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	8 day	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 wolf	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	it				day		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.material V NP»: agent=Material

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yes, because she kept the wolf waiting so long that he got bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kept	punct
3	because	because	SCONJ	_	5 kept	mark
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kept	obj
8	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 waiting	advmod
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 got	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 got	nsubj
13	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 kept	advcl
14	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	past	she	the wolf		tree rules
2	wait	gerund	the wolf not said here		long property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	get	past	he		bored property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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