Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The War of the Wolf and the Fox, part…

Then the bear fell on the wolf and flattened him, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bear · What happens: fall, flatten · To what, where: wolf, bear

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 fell	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 wolf	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wolf	det
7	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 flattened	cc
9	flattened	flatten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fell	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 flattened	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 yeah	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 flattened	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the bear			the wolf	then		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on wolf=Location
2	flatten	past	the bear not said here	bear					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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, dead as a stone, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	as	as	ADP	_	6 stone	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 stone	det
6	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dead	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 proper	punct
8	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dead	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, he climbed up the oak tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 climbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 climbed	nsubj
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
7	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 climbed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	he	the oak tree					vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location tree=Theme

Option 3

Nah, the wolf got up again and ran all the way back to the wood

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 got	compound:prt
7	again	again	ADV	_	5 got	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 ran	cc
9	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 way	det:predet
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	9 ran	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 wood	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 wood	det
16	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get up	past	the wolf				again		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	run	past	the wolf not said here	all way		the wood			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme to wood=Trajectory

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, he got away with a bruise

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 got	advmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 bruise	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bruise	det
8	bruise	bruise	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	past	he					with a bruise; away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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