Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Bruv, what was the fox's big mistake at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv · What happens: be · To what, where: big mistake, end

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mistake	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 mistake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 mistake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistake	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 fox	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mistake	amod
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 end	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 end	det
12	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 mistake	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bruv	the fox's big mistake			at the end		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

He got stuck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	He					stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He fell off roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 fell	compound:prt
4	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	He	roof					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He squeezed down the chimney

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 squeezed	nsubj
2	squeezed	squeeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 squeezed	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 chimney	det
5	chimney	chimney	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squeezed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squeeze down	past	He	the chimney					vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chimney=Theme

Option 4

He tried to climb the wall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tried	nsubj
2	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 climb	mark
4	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 tried	xcomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wall	det
6	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climb	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	He						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	climb not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	the wall					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location wall=Theme

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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