Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Ha, what state were the fox's paws in after the bricks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: paws, bricks

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Ha	ha	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ha	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 paws	nsubj
4	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 paws	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 paws	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fox	case
9	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 bricks	case
11	after	after	ADP	_	13 bricks	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 bricks	det
13	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 paws	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 paws	punct

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

All bloody, cut, and covered in deep scratches

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bloody	det
2	bloody	bloody	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cut	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
4	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 covered	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 covered	cc
7	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 cut	conj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 scratches	case
9	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 scratches	amod
10	scratches	scratch	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 covered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	infinitive	all bloody						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	cover	participle	all bloody not said here					in deep scratches	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in scratch=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

All bleeding and sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 bleeding	det
2	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sore	cc
4	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bleeding	conj

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

Option 3

Completely numb after the long cold winter night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Completely	completely	ADV	_	2 numb	advmod
2	numb	numb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	after	after	ADP	_	8 night	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 night	det
5	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 night	amod
7	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 night	compound
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 numb	obl

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

Option 4

Swollen and bruised

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Swollen	swollen	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bruised	cc
3	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Swollen	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bruise	participle							vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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