Test 14 · ★ · Russian Fairy Tales, The Fox and His Companions, part 40:…

and what did the wolf say he could do?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 did	cc
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	nsubj
6	say	say	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	9 do	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 do	aux
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 say	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the wolf	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	could	wolf	vn act-114-1 «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 right answer

mourn for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mourn	mourn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 mourn	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mourn	imperative	you not said here					for him = he	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for he=Attribute

Option 2

hunt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	imperative	you not said here						vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

cry for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cry	cry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 cry	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry speech: express	imperative	you not said here					for him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient

Option 4

sing for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here					for him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for he=Recipient

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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