Test 10 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…

lol, how'd the fox snag the crow?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: snag · To what, where: crow

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 700 «Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40: the fox tricks the magpie and the crow, then meets a bear who needs a mourner» 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	_	7 snag	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snag	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 snag	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 snag	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snag	nsubj
7	snag	snag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 crow	det
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 snag	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 snag	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snag	would	the fox	the crow					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 · ← Mova's choice

seized him by the beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 seized	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 beak	det
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 seized	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seize	past		him = he				by the beak	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

grabbed him by the wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 grabbed	obj
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 wing	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wing	det
5	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grabbed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past		him = he				by the wing	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

held him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 held	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past		him = he					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

caught him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past		him = he					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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