Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Is Browny's mud house, like, cosy or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: mud house

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 house	cop
2	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Browny	case
4	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cosy	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	9 cosy	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cosy	punct
9	cosy	cosy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cosy	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 cosy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Browny's mud house					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

It is mucky, soft, and falls apart easily, so the fox can dig in fast

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mucky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mucky	cop
3	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mucky	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dig	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 dig	cc
8	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 apart	nsubj
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	16 dig	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 apart	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 dig	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	16 dig	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fox	det
14	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 dig	nsubj
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 dig	aux
16	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mucky	conj
17	in	in	ADV	_	16 dig	advmod
18	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	16 dig	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	It	mucky property	tree rules
2	be				tree rules
3	dig in	can	the fox	apart, fast property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

It is soft, but not really very strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 soft	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 soft	cop
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 strong	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 strong	cc
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 strong	advmod
7	really	really	ADV	_	9 strong	advmod
8	very	very	ADV	_	9 strong	advmod
9	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					soft property	tree rules
2	not be								tree rules

Option 3

It is mucky, soft, and falls apart easily when it rains a little

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mucky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mucky	cop
3	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mucky	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 apart	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 apart	cc
8	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 apart	nsubj
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 mucky	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 apart	advmod
11	when	when	SCONJ	_	13 rains	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rains	nsubj
13	rains	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 apart	advcl
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 little	det
15	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 rains	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	It		apart, mucky property	tree rules
2	be					tree rules
3	rain	present	it	a little		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

It is mucky, soft, and falls apart easily

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mucky	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 mucky	cop
3	mucky	mucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 soft	punct
5	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 mucky	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 apart	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 apart	cc
8	falls	fall	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 apart	nsubj
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	3 mucky	advmod
10	easily	easily	ADV	_	9 apart	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	It					apart, mucky property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

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