Test 3 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Wait, the wolf's howl was so loud the bear covered his ears?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, howl, bear, wolf · What happens: wait, be, cover, howl · To what, where: ears

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 loud	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 howl	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 wolf	case
6	howl	howl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loud	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 loud	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	_	12 covered	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bear	det
11	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 covered	nsubj
12	covered	cover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 ears	nmod:poss
14	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 covered	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the wolf's howl		loud property	tree rules
3	cover	past	the bear	bear's ears		vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ear=Destination
4	howl		the wolf			nom howl «communication intransitive»: poss=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yup, he shut them tight, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	nsubj
4	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shut	obj
6	tight	tight	ADV	_	4 shut	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 shut	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut	past	he	them = they				Yup vocative; mate vocative; tight property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he didn't, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 did	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he					bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, he just laughed it off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 laughed	advmod
5	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 laughed	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 laughed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh off	past	he	it					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yup, he begged him to stop, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yup	yup	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 begged	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yup	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	nsubj
4	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 begged	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 stop	mark
7	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 begged	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stop	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	he		him = he			Yup vocative	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here					mate vocative	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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