Test 13 · ★ · Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs…

Was the hairy man covered in hair, like a monkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, cover · To what, where: hairy man

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 664 «Blue Fairy Book, The Hairy Man, part 4: a swineherd's dogs catch a hairy thief, and a prince gets three magic apples» 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	4 man	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 man	det
3	hairy	hairy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 man	amod
4	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 man	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 hair	case
7	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 covered	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 monkey	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 monkey	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 monkey	det
11	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 man	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 man	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hairy man and a monkey					tree rules
2	cover	participle		the hairy man and a monkey not said here				in hair	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in hair=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

He had golden skin

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 skin	amod
4	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	He	golden skin					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, almost like an animal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 animal	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 animal	punct
3	almost	almost	ADV	_	6 animal	advmod
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 animal	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 animal	det
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

No, he was totally bald

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	6 bald	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bald	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bald	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 bald	advmod
6	bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bald, totally property	tree rules

Option 4

He wore a huge cloak

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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 cloak	det
4	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cloak	amod
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	He	a huge cloak					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme

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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