Test 10 · ★ · Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare i…

Seriously, why'd he tie the hare up in a net by the stream?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: tie up · To what, where: hare, net

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1775 «Tales of the East, How a Fish Swam in the Air and a Hare in the Water, part 2: a pot of gold, a fake fish and hare, and a wife who spends it all» 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	Seriously	seriously	ADV	_	6 tie	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seriously	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tie	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 tie	aux
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tie	nsubj
6	tie	tie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obj
9	up	up	ADP	_	6 tie	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 net	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 net	det
12	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 stream	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 stream	det
15	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tie	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tie	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	would	he	the hare		a net		by the stream; seriously property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient

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

To fool his wife with a made-up show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 fool	mark
2	fool	fool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	10 show	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 show	det
7	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 show	amod
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	9 up	punct
9	up	up	ADP	_	7 made	compound:prt
10	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fool	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	to-infinitive		his wife				with a made show	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Patient
2	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 2

To show his wife a sign

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 show	mark
2	show	show	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sign	det
6	sign	sign	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	to-infinitive		a sign	his wife				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent wife=Recipient sign=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

To catch it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 catch	mark
2	catch	catch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	to-infinitive		it					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To make a fake wonder for his wife

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	5 wonder	det
4	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wonder	amod
5	wonder	wonder	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 wife	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wife	nmod:poss
8	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		a fake wonder				for his wife	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent wonder=Product for wife=Beneficiary

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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