Test 14 · ★ · Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the pri…

Lol, what did Grannonia reckon foxes can't do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grannonia, foxes · What happens: reckon, not do

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 1905 «Pentamerone, The Serpent, part 42: the skin burns, the prince becomes a dove, and Grannonia goes after him with a fox» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 reckon	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reckon	aux
5	Grannonia	Grannonia	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 reckon	nsubj
6	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 do	nsubj
8	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 do	advmod
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 reckon	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Grannonia						tree rules
2	not do	can	foxes						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

be outwitted by any clever girl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 outwitted	aux:pass
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 girl	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 girl	det
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 girl	amod
6	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 outwitted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outwit	infinitive · passive	any clever girl						vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

be outwitted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 outwitted	aux:pass
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outwit	infinitive · passive							vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»

Option 3

be trusted

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 trusted	aux:pass
2	trusted	trust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trust	infinitive · passive							vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»

Option 4

be outwitted by a maiden on foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 outwitted	aux:pass
2	outwitted	outwit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 maiden	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 maiden	det
5	maiden	maiden	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 outwitted	obl
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 foot	case
7	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 maiden	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outwit	infinitive · passive	a maiden on foot						vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot

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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