Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children fle…

how'd the dog react to the bread, honestly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: react

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1727 «Household Tales, The Twins and the Witch: the children flee, and the witch's magic fails» 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 react	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	5 react	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 react	nsubj
5	react	react	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 bread	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bread	det
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 react	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 honestly	punct
10	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	5 react	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 react	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	infinitive	the dog					to the bread; honestly property	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to bread=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

sat down happily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADP	_	1 sat	compound:prt
3	happily	happily	ADV	_	1 sat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past						happily property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

licked their hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	licked	lick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 hands	nmod:poss
3	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 licked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lick	past		their hands					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent hand=Source

Option 3

barked loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	barked	bark	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	1 barked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	participle						loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

wagged his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wagged	wag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 tail	nmod:poss
3	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wagged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wag	past		his tail					vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient

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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