Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, The Three Little Pigs, part 1: the fox eats Br…

What did the mum pig say before she, like, died?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum pig · What happens: do, say, die · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pig	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pig	compound
5	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	before	before	ADP	_	8 she	case
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 say	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
10	like	like	INTJ	_	12 died	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 like	punct
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 say	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	the mum pig	before she	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	die	past			vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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

She said the fox would come and try to trick them and they must be careful

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 trick	mark
10	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trick	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 careful	cc
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 careful	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 careful	aux
15	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 careful	cop
16	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 said	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	would	the fox			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	the fox not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	them = they		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
5	is	must	they		careful property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She said the fox would come and try to trick them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 try	cc
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 trick	mark
10	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 trick	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	would	the fox		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	infinitive	the fox not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	trick not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here	them = they	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

She warned them to build good strong houses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	nsubj
2	warned	warn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warned	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 build	mark
5	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 warned	ccomp
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 houses	amod
8	houses	house	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 build	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warn speech: warn	past	She		them = they				vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	build	to-infinitive		good strong houses					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Product

Option 4

She said the farmer would come to take them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 come	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	xcomp
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	She		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	come	would	the farmer		tree rules
3	take	to-infinitive	the farmer not said here	them = they	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

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