Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman…

Gutted for the bears, bruv, what did the Middle Bear's chair have squatted on it?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: gut, squat · To what, where: chair, bruv

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1915 «Fairy Tales, The Three Bears: the bears find the old woman asleep in the bed and she flees» 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	Gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	4 bears	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bears	det
4	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Gutted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bears	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 squatted	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 squatted	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 squatted	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Bear	det
11	Middle	Middle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Bear	compound
12	Bear	Bear	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 chair	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 Bear	case
14	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 squatted	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 squatted	aux
16	squatted	squat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 bears	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 squatted	obl
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle						for the bears and bruv	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	squat	past · perfect · passive · do-support		the Middle Bear's chair		bruv			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 · ✓ the right answer

his cushion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cushion	nmod:poss
2	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

a seat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 seat	det
2	seat	seat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

his cushion, which had been sat on by someone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 cushion	nmod:poss
2	cushion	cushion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sat	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sat	aux
6	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 sat	aux:pass
7	sat	sit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 someone	case
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit on	past · perfect · passive	someone	his cushion					vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location subject=Theme

Option 4

the stool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 stool	det
2	stool	stool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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