Test 5 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, The True History of Little Golden Hood,…

Bruv, why did the Wolf not just grab her in the wood?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wolf · What happens: not grab · To what, where: Bruv, wood

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grab	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	9 grab	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 grab	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 grab	nsubj
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 grab	advmod
8	just	just	ADV	_	9 grab	advmod
9	grab	grab	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grab	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 wood	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 wood	det
13	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grab	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 grab	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grab	past · do-support	the Wolf	Bruv		the wood		Bruv vocative	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme

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

too many trees

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 many	advmod
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 trees	amod
3	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

there were wood-cutters

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 were	expl
2	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutters	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wood	punct
5	cutters	cutter	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 were	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	wood cutters			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

the trees were too thick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 trees	det
2	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 thick	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thick	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 thick	advmod
5	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

nah, he was scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 scared	cop
5	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					scared 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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