Test 14 · ★ · Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer…
Mate, which beast did the wolf and bear finally want to eat?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beast · What happens: do, want, eat · To what, where: wolf
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 699 «Lilac Fairy Book, Lineik: Lineik sews three robes, Laufer confesses, Blauvor is beheaded» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 did | obj |
| 4 | beast | Beast | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 did | nsubj |
| 5 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 did | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bear | cc |
| 9 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wolf | conj |
| 10 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 11 want | advmod |
| 11 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 did | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 want | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | beast | the wolf and bear | Mate vocative | tree rules | |||
| 2 | want | present | beast not said here | finally property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | eat not said to happen | to-infinitive | beast not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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
the sly fox that tricked them both
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 tricked | nsubj |
| 5 | tricked | trick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fox | acl:relcl |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 tricked | obj |
| 7 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 tricked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | past | the sly fox | them = they | tree rules |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the wolf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | 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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