Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…
Did the fox get what he wanted from Blacky, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: do, get, want · To what, where: fox, Blacky
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 wanted | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 wanted | nsubj |
| 7 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | ccomp |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 Blacky | case |
| 9 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 wanted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nah | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 nah | cc |
| 12 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 get | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | get | present | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 3 | want | past | fox | Blacky | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=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
Nah, Blacky stayed safe in his brick house and the fox went home hungry
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stayed | conj |
| 14 | home | home | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Blacky | Blacky's brick house | safe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | go | past | the fox | home, hungry property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he got in through the back door
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 door | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 8 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 door | compound |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get in | past | he | the back door | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme through door=Destination |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, Blacky stayed safe in his brick house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Blacky | Blacky's brick house | safe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location |
Option 4
Nah, Blacky stayed safe in his brick house with the door bolted tight all night
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 stayed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | Blacky | Blacky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | nsubj |
| 4 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 stayed | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 8 | brick | brick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | compound |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 door | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 door | det |
| 12 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 house | nmod |
| 13 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 door | acl |
| 14 | tight | tight | ADV | _ | 13 bolted | advmod |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 night | det |
| 16 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stayed | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | past | Blacky | Blacky's brick house with the door | night | safe property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location | ||
| 2 | bolt | participle | the door not said here | tight property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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