Test 12 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

The fox took the coat in his mouth, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: take · To what, where: coat, mouth

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 701 «Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, part 1: the fox sells pears and coats to the king for a lazy boy» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 coat	det
5	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 mouth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mouth	nmod:poss
8	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the fox	the coat		fox's mouth			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Value in mouth=Location

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

Yeah, by the string, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 string	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 string	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 string	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 string	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, by the tail, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tail	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tail	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 tail	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tail	det
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tail	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, by the string tied round it, so he carried it off, bruv

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 string	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 string	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 string	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl
6	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 string	acl
7	round	round	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tied	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 carried	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 carried	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	nsubj
12	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 carried	obj
14	off	off	ADP	_	12 carried	compound:prt
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 carried	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		the string not said here				round string	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
2	carry off	past	he	string				by the string; bruv obl	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, by the string in his teeth, and he dragged it through the snow, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 string	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 string	punct
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 string	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 string	det
5	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 teeth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 string	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 dragged	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dragged	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dragged	nsubj
12	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 string	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 dragged	obj
14	through	through	ADP	_	16 snow	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 snow	det
16	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dragged	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 snow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	he	string		the snow and bruv			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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