Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

bro was it the little boy or the bear who chased Johnny-cake first, like who even was it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro, little boy · What happens: be, chase · To what, where: little boy, Johnny cake, bro

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1966 «English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is eaten, and the dove flies to the queen» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	cop
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boy	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 boy	det
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 boy	amod
6	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 bear	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 boy	conj
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 chased	nsubj
11	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 boy	acl:relcl
12	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 cake	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 Johnny	punct
14	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 chased	obj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	11 chased	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 who	punct
17	like	like	SCONJ	_	18 who	mark
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 chased	parataxis
19	even	even	ADV	_	21 it	advmod
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 it	cop
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 who	nsubj
22	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 boy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bro	the little boy or the bear		tree rules
2	chase	past	the little boy or the bear	Johnny cake	first property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme
3	is a	past		bro		tree rules

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 bear who came after him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 bear	acl:relcl
5	after	after	ADP	_	6 him	case
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the bear				after him = he		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the old woman who ran first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the old woman					first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the old woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 woman	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 woman	amod
3	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the little boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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