Test 13 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…
Dude, what were the two little ones so scared of?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: two little ones
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Dude | dude | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 ones | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 ones | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ones | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ones | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 ones | nummod |
| 7 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | amod |
| 8 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Dude | conj |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 scared | advmod |
| 10 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 ones | advcl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 scared | obl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Dude | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Dude and the two little ones | the two little ones | 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
Being tied up forever and never seeing home again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tied | aux:pass |
| 2 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 tied | compound:prt |
| 4 | forever | forever | ADV | _ | 2 tied | advmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | cc |
| 6 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 7 seeing | advmod |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 tied | conj |
| 8 | home | home | ADV | _ | 7 seeing | advmod |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 seeing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie up | gerund · passive | forever property | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle» | |||||
| 2 | not see | gerund | again | home property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Getting lost at dusk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Getting | xcomp |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 dusk | case |
| 4 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | gerund | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | lose | participle | dusk | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Being eaten by the fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 eaten | aux:pass |
| 2 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 fox | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 eaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | gerund · passive | the fox | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Being chased by the farmer's dogs all day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 chased | aux:pass |
| 2 | chased | chase | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 dogs | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 farmer | case |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 chased | obl:agent |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 day | det |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 chased | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chase | gerund · passive | the farmer's dogs | day | vn chase-51.6 «NP V PP.theme»: 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.
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