Test 10 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Did Whitey listen to her mum, or nah, be honest?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Whitey · What happens: listen, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1886 «Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Browny and Whitey, then fails at Blacky's brick house» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 listen	aux
2	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 listen	nsubj
3	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 mum	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mum	nmod:poss
6	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 listen	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 honest	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	12 honest	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 honest	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 nah	punct
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 honest	cop
12	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 listen	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 listen	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past · do-support	Whitey					to Whitey's mum	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mum=Theme
2	is	infinitive	Whitey not said here					honest property	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

Yeah, she listened and built a brick house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 listened	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 listened	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 listened	nsubj
4	listened	listen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 built	cc
6	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 listened	conj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 house	det
8	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 house	compound
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 built	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	past	she						vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	build	past	she not said here	a brick house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 2

Yeah, she 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	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem 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	she						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, she was too greedy to build a solid house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 greedy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 greedy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greedy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 greedy	advmod
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 build	mark
8	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 greedy	advcl
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	solid	solid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					greedy property	tree rules
2	build	to-infinitive	she not said here	a solid house					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 4

Nah, she was lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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