Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant

Which critter hated walking, lowkey?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: critter · What happens: hate, walk · To what, where: lowkey

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 685 «Fairy Tales, The Prince and the Giant» 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	Which	which	DET	PronType=Int	2 critter	det
2	critter	critter	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hated	nsubj
3	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 hated	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lowkey	punct
6	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 hated	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	which critter						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	walk not said to happen	gerund	which critter not said here	lowkey					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lowkey=Trajectory

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

The squirrel, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 squirrel	det
2	squirrel	squirrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bro	punct
4	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 squirrel	conj

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

Option 2

The ape, obviously, cause he hated walking so much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ape	det
2	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hated	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ape	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 ape	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hated	punct
6	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	8 hated	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 hated	nsubj
8	hated	hate	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	walking	walk	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 hated	xcomp
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 much	advmod
11	much	much	ADV	_	9 walking	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hate	past	the ape						vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	walk not said to happen	gerund	the ape not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The bear, lowkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 lowkey	punct
4	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bear	conj

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The ape, obvi

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ape	det
2	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 ape	punct
4	obvi	obvi	X	Foreign=Yes	2 ape	dep

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

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