Test 11 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

Wait, the horse was mad strong, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, horse · What happens: wait, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 horse	det
4	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 strong	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 strong	cop
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 strong	amod
7	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Wait	advcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 strong	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	1 Wait	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the horse					strong property	tree rules

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

Mad strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Mad	amod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Strong enough to beat the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 beat	mark
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Strong enough to pull a cart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 pull	mark
4	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cart	det
6	cart	cart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pull	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	to-infinitive		a cart					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme

Option 4

Not really

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 really	advmod
2	really	really	ADV	_	root	root

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

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