Test 6 · ★ · Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his…

Why'd the fox go running in with the hens, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: go, run, innit

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 1717 «Slavonic Tales, The Magic Ring, part 1: Martin spends his mother's money on a dog and a cat» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 fox	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 fox	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	running	run	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 go	xcomp
7	in	in	ADV	_	6 running	advmod
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hens	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hens	det
10	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 running	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	5 go	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	go	present	the fox		vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	run	gerund	the fox not said here	with the hens	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent with hen=Material
3	innit	infinitive			tree rules

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

To steal the eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 steal	mark
2	steal	steal	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eggs	det
4	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 steal	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	to-infinitive		the eggs					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location egg=Theme

Option 2

To eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	to-infinitive							vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To make a racket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 racket	det
4	racket	racket	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a racket					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset racket=Product

Option 4

To hide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 hide	mark
2	hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	to-infinitive							vn concealment-16-1 «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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