Test 7 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow…

Was Scrapefoot scared of them bears or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 248 «English Fairy Tales, Scrapefoot, part 15: pixies eat a cow, a blinded giant, and a fox sneaks into the bears' castle» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
2	Scrapefoot	Scrapefoot	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 scared	compound
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 bears	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bears	nsubj
6	bears	bear	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 what	cc
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 bears	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 scared	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						of bears; scared property	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

Nah, he was brave and went in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 brave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brave	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	cop
5	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 went	cc
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brave	conj
8	in	in	ADV	_	7 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					brave property	tree rules
2	go in	past	he not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, not at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 all	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 all	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 all	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Dead scared, but dead nosy too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 nosy	punct
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 nosy	cc
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nosy	amod
6	nosy	nosy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scared	conj
7	too	too	ADV	_	6 nosy	advmod

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

Option 4

Dead scared, so he hid in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	2 scared	advmod
2	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hid	punct
4	so	so	ADV	_	6 hid	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hid	nsubj
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 scared	conj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 cave	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	he			the cave			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cave=Location

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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