Test 8 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

Hold up, what's the fox's big plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: hold up, be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 plan	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 plan	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 plan	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plan	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 fox	case
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 plan	amod
10	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hold	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	is a	present		the fox's big plan					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 · ← Mova's choice

Trap the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trap	trap	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trap	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trap	imperative	you not said here	the lion					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient

Option 2

Eat the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	imperative	you not said here	the horse					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

Option 3

Make the lion sleep in the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sleep	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sleep	compound
4	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 wood	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wood	det
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	the lion sleep		the wood			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset sleep=Product

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Make the lion drag a dead horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Make	obj
4	drag	drag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Make	xcomp
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 horse	det
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 horse	amod
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drag	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	imperative	you not said here	the lion					tree rules
2	drag	infinitive	the lion not said here	a dead horse					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme

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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