Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win the…
ngl the hornet got the fox three times?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ngl hornet · What happens: ngl, get · To what, where: fox
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 735 «Household Tales, The Frog King, part 11: the wrens win their war, and a frog bargains with a princess» 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 | ngl | ngl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hornet | compound |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 hornet | det |
| 3 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | 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 | 4 got | obj |
| 7 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 times | nummod |
| 8 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ngl | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | get | past | the ngl hornet | the fox | time | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus |
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 right answer
yeah, at the third one the fox screamed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 screamed | nsubj |
| 9 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past | the fox | the third one not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
Option 2
yeah, at the second one the fox ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 one | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 one | punct |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 one | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 one | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 one | amod |
| 6 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 one | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | the fox | the second one not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Trajectory |
Option 3
nah, the fox stung the hornet twice
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stung | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | nsubj |
| 5 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hornet | det |
| 7 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | obj |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 stung | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past | the fox | the hornet | twice property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hornet=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, the hornet stung him again and again until the fox finally screamed loudly
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 stung | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stung | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 hornet | det |
| 4 | hornet | hornet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stung | nsubj |
| 5 | stung | sting | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stung | obj |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 stung | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 again | cc |
| 9 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 again | conj |
| 10 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 14 screamed | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 screamed | nsubj |
| 13 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 14 screamed | advmod |
| 14 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stung | advcl |
| 15 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 14 screamed | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sting | past | the hornet | him = he | again | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | scream speech: express | past | the fox | finally, loudly property | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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