Test 2 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Coo-my-dove, part 1: Johnny-cake is e…

lol the fox is so sly, like how did he trick Johnny-cake into coming close?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: be, trick, come · To what, where: Johnny cake

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 sly	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sly	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sly	cop
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 sly	advmod
6	sly	sly	ADV	_	12 trick	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 trick	punct
8	like	like	SCONJ	_	12 trick	mark
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	12 trick	advmod
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 trick	aux
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 trick	nsubj
12	trick	trick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
13	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 cake	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 Johnny	punct
15	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 trick	obj
16	into	into	SCONJ	_	17 coming	mark
17	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 trick	advcl
18	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	17 coming	advmod
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fox		sly property	tree rules
2	trick	past · do-support	fox	Johnny cake		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
3	come	gerund	fox not said here		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

by pretending to be asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pretending	mark
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	5 asleep	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 asleep	cop
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 pretending	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive						asleep property	tree rules

Option 2

by pretending he could not hear the running boy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pretending	mark
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 hear	advcl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 boy	det
8	running	running	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 boy	compound
9	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund	he not said here						tree rules
2	not hear	could	he	the running boy					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer boy=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

by pretending he could not hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pretending	mark
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hear	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 hear	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 hear	advmod
6	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pretending	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	not hear	could	he						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

by pretending he had not seen Johnny-cake at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	SCONJ	_	2 pretending	mark
2	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 seen	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 seen	aux
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 seen	advmod
6	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 pretending	ccomp
7	Johnny	Johnny	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 cake	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Johnny	punct
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 seen	obj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 seen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund							tree rules
2	not see	past · perfect	he	Johnny cake		all			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cake=Stimulus

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