Test 6 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

Bruv, the bear saw this huge army, didn't he?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: see, not do · To what, where: huge army

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 saw	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 bear	det
4	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 army	det
7	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 army	amod
8	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
10	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 saw	conj
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 did	advmod
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 did	nsubj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 saw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the bear	this huge army				Bruv vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer army=Stimulus
2	not do	past	bear						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

Nah, it was only a sleepy dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 dog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 dog	cop
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 dog	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 dog	det
7	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dog	amod
8	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a sleepy dog					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, he saw a massive army marching

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 marching	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 marching	amod
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 marching	compound
8	marching	marching	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he	a massive army marching					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer marching=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, it was a whole army of cats with their tails all standing up straight

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 army	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 army	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 army	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 army	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 army	amod
7	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 cats	case
9	cats	cat	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 army	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 tails	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tails	nmod:poss
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 cats	nmod
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 standing	advmod
14	standing	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 army	acl
15	up	up	ADP	_	14 standing	compound:prt
16	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 standing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a whole army				of cats with cats's tails	tree rules
2	stand up	gerund	a whole army not said here					all, straight property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it was just the cat with her tail up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 cat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 cat	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 cat	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 cat	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 tail	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 tail	nmod:poss
10	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cat	nmod
11	up	up	ADV	_	7 cat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	the cat				with cat's tail	tree rules

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