Test 10 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rab…
Lol, did the wolf think he'd be safe?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: do, think, be · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 574 «Uncle Remus, The Awful Fate of Mr. Wolf, part 10: Brer Rabbit traps Brer Wolf in a chest and then sets a kettle on the fire» 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 | _ | 3 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wolf | det |
| 5 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 think | nsubj |
| 6 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 did | parataxis |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 safe | nsubj |
| 8 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 safe | aux |
| 9 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 safe | cop |
| 10 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 think | ccomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | the wolf | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | would | wolf | safe 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
No, not at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 all | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | 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 2 · ← Mova's choice
He thought he'd be fine
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 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fine | nsubj |
| 4 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fine | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fine | cop |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | He | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | would | he | fine property | tree rules |
Option 3
He felt sure he'd hide
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 felt | nsubj |
| 2 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 felt | xcomp |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | He | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | hide | would | he | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He was sure he'd hide
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 | 3 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 sure | cop |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 hide | nsubj |
| 5 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 hide | aux |
| 6 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 sure | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | He | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | would | he | vn concealment-16-1 «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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