Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Is Whitey's cabbage house, like, the worst house ever or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: cabbage house

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 house	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Whitey	case
4	cabbage	cabbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct
7	like	like	INTJ	_	5 house	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 house	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 house	det
10	worst	bad	ADJ	Degree=Sup	11 house	amod
11	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	conj
12	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	14 what	advmod
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 house	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 house	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		Whitey's cabbage house and the worst 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

Nope, it was pretty decent, the fox just got lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 decent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 decent	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decent	cop
5	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	6 decent	advmod
6	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 fox	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 decent	conj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 got	advmod
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 decent	advcl
12	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					decent, pretty property	tree rules
2	get	past		lucky					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lucky=Stimulus

Option 2

Kinda, it was ok, but the fox ate it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 ok	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ok	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ok	cop
5	ok	ok	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ate	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 ate	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ate	nsubj
10	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ok	advcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 ate	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	10 ate	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					kinda, ok property	tree rules
2	eat up	past	the fox	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the fox ate it, so it was a total fail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fail	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 fail	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fail	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fail	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fail	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fail	amod
13	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the fox	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is a	past	fox	a total fail					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the fox ate it, so it was a total fail, and Whitey was so dumb

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fail	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 fail	advmod
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fail	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fail	cop
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fail	det
12	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fail	amod
13	fail	fail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 dumb	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 dumb	cc
16	Whitey	Whitey	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 dumb	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 dumb	cop
18	so	so	ADV	_	19 dumb	advmod
19	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 ate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the fox	it		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	is a	past	fox	a total fail		tree rules
3	is	past	Whitey		dumb 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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