Test 4 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Why did the fox make the bear move the body to the storehouse?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, you · What happens: make, move · To what, where: bear, body, storehouse

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 make	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 make	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 move	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bear	det
7	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	obj
8	move	move	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 body	det
10	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 storehouse	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 storehouse	det
13	storehouse	storehouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 move	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past · do-support	the fox	the bear					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Product
2	move	imperative	you not said here	the body		the storehouse			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent body=Theme to storehouse=Trajectory

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

Cause it's damp, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 damp	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 damp	cop
4	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	present	it					damp property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cause the cave was too damp, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 damp	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 damp	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 damp	advmod
6	damp	damp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here						vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the cave					damp property	tree rules

Option 3

Cause the cave was too cold, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 cave	det
3	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cold	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cold	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 cold	advmod
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Cause	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here					mate vocative	vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition
2	is	past	the cave					cold property	tree rules

Option 4

Cause he wanted a nicer roof, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 roof	det
5	nicer	nice	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 roof	amod
6	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 roof	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cause	a nicer roof and mate					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot roof=Theme

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