Test 8 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…
Was the fox a proper good guy in this bit, or nah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: fox
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | 3 fox | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guy | csubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 guy | det |
| 5 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | amod |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 guy | amod |
| 7 | guy | guy | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 bit | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 bit | det |
| 10 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 guy | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 nah | punct |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 nah | cc |
| 13 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 guy | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 guy | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the fox | 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
Nah, he was a sly, mean villain who tricked the pigs and their mother too
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 villain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 villain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 villain | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 villain | det |
| 6 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 villain | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sly | punct |
| 8 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 villain | amod |
| 9 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 tricked | nsubj |
| 11 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 villain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 pigs | det |
| 13 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 tricked | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 mother | cc |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 mother | nmod:poss |
| 16 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 pigs | conj |
| 17 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 tricked | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a sly mean villain | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | trick | past | a sly mean villain | the pigs and pigs's mother | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was a sly, mean villain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 9 villain | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 villain | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 villain | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 villain | det |
| 6 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 villain | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sly | punct |
| 8 | mean | mean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 villain | amod |
| 9 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a sly mean villain | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he was a nice fox who only wanted some food to eat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fox | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fox | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fox | amod |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 wanted | nsubj |
| 9 | only | only | ADV | _ | 10 wanted | advmod |
| 10 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 fox | acl:relcl |
| 11 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 food | det |
| 12 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 wanted | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wanted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a nice fox | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want | past | a nice fox | some food | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | some food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, he was kind to the pigs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 kind | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | cop |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 pigs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 pigs | det |
| 8 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 kind | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | to the pigs; kind property | tree rules |
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