Test 7 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

The boar was buried in straw with just his ear out, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: bury out · To what, where: boar, straw

This is test 7 · ★ 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 boar	det
2	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 buried	aux:pass
4	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 straw	case
6	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	10 ear	case
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 ear	advmod
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 ear	nmod:poss
10	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 buried	obl
11	out	out	ADP	_	4 buried	compound:prt
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 right	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	4 buried	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 buried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury out	past · passive		the boar		straw		with his ear	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in straw=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, so the cat thought it was a mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cat	det
5	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 mouse	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mouse	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 mouse	det
10	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the cat						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	cat	a mouse					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, so the bear thought it was a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thought	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 thought	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bear	det
5	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fox	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 fox	cop
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	the bear						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	bear	a fox					tree rules

Option 3

Nah, the cat saw the wolf's tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cat	det
4	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	nsubj
5	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tail	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 wolf	case
9	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the cat	the wolf's tail					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, buried in mud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 buried	punct
3	buried	bury	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 mud	case
5	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 buried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	participle				mud			vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in mud=Destination

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