Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

no cap, what did the bald huntsman's wind blow off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cap, bald huntsman · What happens: blow off, wind

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blow	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blow	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 huntsman	det
7	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 huntsman	amod
8	huntsman	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wind	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 huntsman	case
10	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
11	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 blow	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 blow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow off	past · do-support	no cap						vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	wind		the bald huntsman						nom wind «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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

his cane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cane	nmod:poss
2	cane	cane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his coat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 coat	nmod:poss
2	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his hat and his wig

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 hat	nmod:poss
2	hat	hat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wig	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 wig	nmod:poss
5	wig	wig	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hat	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

his shoes and socks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shoes	nmod:poss
2	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 socks	cc
4	socks	sock	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 shoes	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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