Test 3 · ★ · Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks…

bro why did the Ogre chop his own girls?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Ogre · What happens: chop · To what, where: own girls

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1469 «Perrault's Fairy Tales, Little Thumb: Little Thumb tricks the Ogre, steals his boots and gold, and grows rich» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chop	vocative
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 chop	advmod
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chop	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ogre	det
5	Ogre	Ogre	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 chop	nsubj
6	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 girls	nmod:poss
8	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 girls	amod
9	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chop	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 chop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	past · do-support	the Ogre	Ogre's own girls				bro vocative	vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent girl=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he thought they were boys

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 boys	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 boys	cop
5	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	boys					tree rules

Option 2

he thought they were wolves

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wolves	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wolves	cop
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	wolves					tree rules

Option 3

he thought they were goats

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	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 goats	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 goats	cop
5	goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	they	goats					tree rules

Option 4

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

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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