Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Bro, how was the fox trying to get inside?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: be, try, get · To what, where: fox

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1887 «Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded in the kettle» 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fox	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	6 fox	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fox	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
7	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fox	acl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 trying	xcomp
10	inside	inside	ADV	_	9 get	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the fox		tree rules
2	try	gerund	the fox not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the fox not said here		inside property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

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

Under the gate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Under	under	ADP	_	3 gate	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Down the chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Down	down	ADP	_	3 chimney	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chimney	det
3	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Via the roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Via	via	ADP	_	3 roof	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 roof	det
3	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Through the window

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Through	through	ADP	_	3 window	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 window	det
3	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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