Test 14 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

So the wolf lay in bed, howling like a dog?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: lie, howl · To what, where: bed

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1553 «Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood, part 1: a clever girl, a sly wolf, and a hood that burns» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 lay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 bed	case
6	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lay	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 howling	punct
8	howling	howl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 lay	advcl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 dog	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 dog	det
11	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 howling	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the wolf			bed			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bed=Location
2	howl	gerund	the wolf not said here					like a dog	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he ran off howling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	he	howling					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme howling=Trajectory

Option 2

nah, he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

nah, he crept off quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 crept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 crept	nsubj
4	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADV	_	4 crept	advmod
6	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 crept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	creep off	past	he					off, quiet property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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