Test 8 · ★ · Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the…

Did the ogre snap up the bird, or did the bird snap off the beans?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ogre, bird · What happens: snap up, snap off · To what, where: bird, beans

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 708 «Tales of Many Lands, Motikatika: the clever baby fools the ogre with a crowd of look-alikes» 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 snap	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ogre	det
3	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snap	nsubj
4	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 snap	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 snap	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 snap	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 did	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 did	cc
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 snap	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 bird	det
12	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 snap	nsubj
13	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	off	off	ADP	_	13 snap	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 beans	det
16	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 snap	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 snap	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	past · do-support	the ogre	the bird					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme
2	snap off	past · do-support	the bird	the beans					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bean=Theme

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

the beans fell off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beans	det
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 fell	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall off	past	the beans						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

the beans snapped up the ogre

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 beans	det
2	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 snapped	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ogre	det
6	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	past	the beans	the ogre					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location ogre=Theme

Option 3

the ogre snapped up the bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 ogre	det
2	ogre	ogre	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 snapped	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap up	past	the ogre	the bird					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bird=Theme

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

the bird snapped off the beans

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bird	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 snapped	nsubj
3	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	6 beans	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 beans	det
6	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 snapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	the bird					off the beans	vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient off bean=Co-Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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