Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks…

Safe, what did the wolf do when he woke up and tried to run?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, wake up, try, run · To what, where: wolf

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 746 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, Little Red-Cap, part 1: a wolf tricks Red-Cap off the path and eats her grandmother» 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	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	advcl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 woke	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 woke	nsubj
10	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 woke	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tried	cc
13	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 woke	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 run	mark
15	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 tried	xcomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past		the wolf	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Eventuality
2	do	present			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wake up	past	he		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	try	past	he not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	run not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

ran off quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 ran	compound:prt
3	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past						quickly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

collapsed onto the grass and fell dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	onto	onto	ADP	_	4 grass	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grass	det
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 collapsed	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 collapsed	conj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collapse	past				the grass			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past						dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

collapsed and died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 died	cc
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 collapsed	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collapse	past							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	die	past							vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

he stumbled, collapsed, and fell dead on the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stumbled	nsubj
2	stumbled	stumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 collapsed	punct
4	collapsed	collapse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stumbled	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fell	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 fell	cc
7	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 stumbled	conj
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fell	xcomp
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	stumble	past	he			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	collapse	past	he not said here			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	fall	past	he not said here	the floor	dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on floor=Location

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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