Test 2 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

So the hare totally failed the howling test, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: hare · What happens: fail · To what, where: howling test

This is test 2 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 failed	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hare	det
3	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 failed	nsubj
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 failed	advmod
5	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 test	det
7	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 test	compound
8	test	test	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 failed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 failed	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	5 failed	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 failed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fail	past	the hare	the howling test				totally property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent test=Eventuality

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

Yeah, her voice was so tiny the bear could barely hear it at all, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 tiny	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tiny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tiny	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 tiny	advmod
7	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bear	det
9	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 hear	aux
11	barely	barely	ADV	_	12 hear	advmod
12	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tiny	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 hear	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 hear	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tiny	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her voice					tiny property	tree rules
2	hear	could	the bear	voice		all		barely property	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 2

Yeah, her voice was tiny and squeaky, bro, so she failed hard

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 squeaky	cc
8	squeaky	squeaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 tiny	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bro	punct
10	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 failed	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 failed	advmod
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 failed	nsubj
14	failed	fail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	conj
15	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 failed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	her voice	bro vocative; tiny property	tree rules
2	be		her voice not said here		tree rules
3	fail	past	she	hard property	vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, her voice was tiny, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 tiny	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 tiny	punct
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 voice	nmod:poss
4	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tiny	cop
6	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tiny	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	her voice					bro vocative; tiny property	tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the wolf was great, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 great	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 great	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 great	cop
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 great	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf					mate vocative; great property	tree rules

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