Test 9 · ★ · Fairy Book, Blacky, Browny and Whitey: the fox is scalded…

Ah, what was Blacky's cunning plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: cunning plan

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ah	ah	INTJ	_	8 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 plan	cop
5	Blacky	Blacky	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 plan	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Blacky	case
7	cunning	cunning	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 plan	amod
8	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		Blacky's cunning plan					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 · ✓ the right answer

Hide in the kettle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 kettle	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 kettle	det
4	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	imperative	you not said here			the kettle			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in kettle=Location

Option 2

Trick the fox outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trick	obj
4	outside	outside	ADV	_	1 Trick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	imperative	you not said here	the fox				outside property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient

Option 3

Lock the door tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lock	lock	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 door	det
3	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lock	obj
4	tight	tight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Lock	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	imperative	you not said here	the door				tight property	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent door=Patient

Option 4

Run away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	away	away	ADV	_	1 Run	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run away	imperative	you not said here					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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