Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

So the cat and dog bumped into each other under a holly tree, dead random?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: bump · To what, where: each

This is test 4 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 bumped	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cat	det
3	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bumped	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 dog	cc
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cat	conj
6	bumped	bump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	into	into	ADP	_	8 each	case
8	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	6 bumped	obl
9	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 each	fixed
10	under	under	ADP	_	13 tree	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	holly	holly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bumped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 random	punct
15	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 random	amod
16	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 bumped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bump	past	the cat and dog			each		under a holly tree and dead random	vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into each=Location

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

Nah, the fox sent them both there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sent	nsubj
5	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	obj
7	both	both	ADV	_	8 there	advmod
8	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sent	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send	past	the fox	them = they		there			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

Nah, they planned it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 planned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planned	nsubj
4	planned	plan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 planned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plan	past	they	it					vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, they met by the river and had a chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 met	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 river	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 river	det
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chat	det
11	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	they					by the river	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	they not said here	a chat					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chat=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, both were gutted and having a moan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gutted	punct
3	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gutted	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gutted	aux:pass
5	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 having	cc
7	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 gutted	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 moan	det
9	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 having	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	past · passive		both					vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	have	gerund		a moan					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent moan=Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1936-pg7277-part73/t4/