Test 3 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tr…
Why did Henny-penny bolt home?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do
This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1960 «English Fairy Tales, Childe Rowland, part 19: Foxy-woxy tricks the chicken-crew into his cave, and Childe Rowland enters the Dark Tower of Elfland» 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | advcl |
| 3 | Henny | Henny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 bolt | compound |
| 4 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 3 Henny | punct |
| 5 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bolt | compound |
| 6 | bolt | bolt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 6 bolt | advmod |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Cause it started raining hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 3 started | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 started | nsubj |
| 3 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | raining | rain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 started | xcomp |
| 5 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 raining | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | it | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | rain | gerund | hard property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» |
Option 2
Cause the fox was laughing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 laughing | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 laughing | aux |
| 5 | laughing | laugh | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Cause | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | laugh | past · progressive | the fox | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cause Cocky-locky shouted
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 2 Cocky | case |
| 2 | Cocky | Cocky | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 shouted | obl |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 locky | punct |
| 4 | locky | locky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Cocky | conj |
| 5 | shouted | shout | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | participle | cause Cocky | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Cause the fox came out of the hole and bit her
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cause | cause | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 fox | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 hole | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 hole | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hole | det |
| 8 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bit | cc |
| 10 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 bit | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | infinitive | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||||
| 2 | come out | past | the Cause fox | the hole | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result | ||||
| 3 | bite | past | the Cause fox not said here | fox | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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.
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