Test 5 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

Did the ladle hit the fox's head, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ladle · What happens: hit · To what, where: head

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ladle	det
3	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 head	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 fox	case
8	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 hit	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past · do-support	the ladle	the fox's head					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent head=Patient what=Result

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

Nope, his ear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 ear	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 ear	nmod:poss
4	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, it caught his tail and burned the fur right off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 burned	cc
8	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 caught	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fur	det
10	fur	fur	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 burned	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 off	advmod
12	off	off	ADV	_	8 burned	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	it	his tail				mate vocative	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
2	burn	past		the fur				off property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent fur=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it hit his nose, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nose	nmod:poss
6	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 nose	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	it	his nose and mate					vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nose=Co-Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it caught his tail, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 caught	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	it	his tail and mate					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme

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