Test 11 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

The dog barked cos the fox told him to, to get Simon out, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, fox · What happens: bark, tell, simon out · To what, where: dog · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1936 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part 73: the cruel brothers are banished, and the old cat and dog join the fox's war» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barked	nsubj
3	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	7 told	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 told	nsubj
7	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 barked	advcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 told	iobj
9	to	to	PART	_	7 told	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Simon	punct
11	to	to	PART	_	13 Simon	mark
12	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 Simon	aux:pass
13	Simon	simon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 barked	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 Simon	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 Simon	punct
16	right	right	INTJ	_	3 barked	discourse
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 barked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	past	the fox	dog	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
3	simon out	to-infinitive · passive			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

Yeah, the fox wanted Simon to come out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 come	mark
8	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
9	out	out	ADV	_	8 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the fox	Simon					tree rules
2	come out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Simon not said here					out property	vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the dog barked because a thief was really in the courtyard that night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	nsubj
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 courtyard	mark
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 thief	det
8	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 courtyard	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 courtyard	cop
10	really	really	ADV	_	13 courtyard	advmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 courtyard	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 courtyard	det
13	courtyard	courtyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	advcl
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog				night		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	a thief			the courtyard			tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, the fox wanted the dog to chase the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 dog	det
7	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chase	mark
9	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cat	det
11	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chase	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the fox	the dog					tree rules
2	chase not said to happen	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	the cat					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the dog barked because he was hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 barked	nsubj
5	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	9 hungry	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hungry	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 hungry	cop
9	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 barked	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	the dog						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	dog					hungry property	tree rules

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