Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

Was the fox's fake voice actually convincing, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: fake voice

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 voice	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 voice	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fox	case
5	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 voice	amod
6	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 convincing	csubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 convincing	advmod
8	convincing	convincing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 convincing	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 convincing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fox's fake voice					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

Kinda, it fooled Browny a little bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kinda	kinda	ADV	_	4 fooled	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Kinda	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fooled	nsubj
4	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fooled	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bit	det
7	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bit	amod
8	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fooled	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past	it	Browny				a little bit obl:unmarked; kinda property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent browny=Patient

Option 2

Nah, it was bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					bad property	tree rules

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

Nah, the pigs spotted it as fake and feigned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 spotted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 pigs	det
4	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spotted	nsubj
5	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 spotted	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 fake	case
8	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spotted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feigned	cc
10	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 spotted	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	the pigs	it				as fake	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Destination
2	feign	past	the pigs not said here						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Yeah, it worked on Browny, and he opened up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 worked	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 Browny	case
6	Browny	Browny	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 opened	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 opened	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 opened	nsubj
10	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 worked	conj
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 opened	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it					on Browny	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on browny=Theme
2	open up	past	Browny						vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1886-pg7277-part23/t4/