Test 1 · ★ · English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills t…

Oi, what'd the dragon nip off the lad before it croaked?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: croak · To what, where: nip

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 261 «English Fairy Tales, The Little Bull-Calf: the boy kills the dragon and wins the princess» 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	Oi	oi	INTJ	_	4 'd	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 'd	nsubj
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nip	det
6	dragon	dragon	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nip	compound
7	nip	nip	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	10 lad	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 lad	det
10	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 'd	obl
11	before	before	SCONJ	_	13 croaked	mark
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 croaked	nsubj:pass
13	croaked	croak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 'd	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 'd	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	croak	participle · passive		nip					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=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

his thumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 thumb	nmod:poss
2	thumb	thumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

his little finger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 finger	nmod:poss
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 finger	amod
3	finger	finger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his forefinger

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 forefinger	nmod:poss
2	forefinger	forefinger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a toe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 toe	det
2	toe	toe	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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