Test 6 · ★ · Fairy Book, How the Beggar Boy Turned into Count Piro, par…

So that's why foxes got the white bit on their tails, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that, foxes · What happens: be, get · To what, where: white bit, tails

This is test 6 · ★ 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	_	4 why	advmod
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 why	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 why	cop
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 got	advmod
5	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bit	det
8	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bit	amod
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 tails	case
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 tails	nmod:poss
12	tails	tail	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	that					why property	tree rules
2	get	past	foxes	the white bit		foxes's tails			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bit=Theme on tail=Source

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

Yep, from the ladle, and from the bear's wife's ghost, bro

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 ladle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ladle	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ladle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladle	det
5	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ghost	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 ghost	cc
8	from	from	ADP	_	14 ghost	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 bear	det
10	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 bear	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ghost	nmod:poss
13	's	's	PART	_	12 wife	case
14	ghost	ghost	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladle	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bro	punct
16	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladle	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ghost		the bear's wife						nom ghost «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Yeah, from the bear, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, from the ladle, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 ladle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ladle	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ladle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladle	det
5	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladle	conj

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

Option 4

Yep, from the ladle that the bear swung at him, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 ladle	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ladle	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	5 ladle	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ladle	det
5	ladle	ladle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 swung	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bear	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swung	nsubj
9	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ladle	advcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 swung	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ladle	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	the bear					at him = he	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at he=Trajectory

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