Test 8 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails…

Which gaff did the wolf huff and puff at and not blow down?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: gaff · What happens: do, puff, not blow down · To what, where: wolf huff

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1952 «English Fairy Tales, The Three Little Pigs: the wolf fails at three houses and ends up boiled in the pot» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 gaff	det
2	gaff	gaff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 huff	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 huff	compound
6	huff	huff	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 puff	cc
8	puff	puff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	conj
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	12 blow	mark
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 blow	cc
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 blow	advmod
12	blow	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 puff	advcl
13	down	down	ADP	_	12 blow	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	which gaff	the wolf huff	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent huff=Eventuality
2	puff	present	which gaff not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	not blow down	infinitive	which gaff not said here		vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=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 stone barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 barn	det
2	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 barn	compound
3	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the straw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 straw	det
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the brick house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	brick	brick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	compound
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the wood house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 house	det
2	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 house	compound
3	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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.

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