Test 4 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

What did the Kid do while the Wolf was playing, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, play · To what, where: Kid

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 playing	nsubj:outer
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 What	acl:relcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Kid	det
4	Kid	Kid	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 playing	aux
6	while	while	SCONJ	_	10 playing	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Wolf	det
8	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 playing	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 playing	aux
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 playing	vocative
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 playing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Kid					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Eventuality
2	play	present · progressive · do-support						mate vocative	vn performance-26.7-1 «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

He ran off towards the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	towards	towards	ADP	_	6 woods	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 woods	det
6	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He			the woods			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards wood=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He skipped about and bopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 skipped	advmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 bopped	cc
5	bopped	bop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 skipped	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	He					about property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	bop	participle	He not said here						vn waltz-51.5 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

He slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slept	nsubj
2	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	He						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He sat down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sat	nsubj
2	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	down	down	ADP	_	2 sat	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	He						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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