Test 4 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

ok so old Mr Fox was just chillin under the bench playing dead, bruh

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: old Mr Fox, bench · What happens: be, play · To what, where: chillin, bench

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 779 «Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister frees her ravens, Mrs Fox tests her suitors, and a huntsman gets a magic cloak» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	8 chillin	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	8 chillin	advmod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Fox	amod
4	Mr	Mr	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Fox	compound
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chillin	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chillin	cop
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 chillin	advmod
8	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	under	under	ADP	_	11 bench	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bench	det
11	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chillin	nmod
12	playing	play	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 bench	acl
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 playing	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 chillin	punct
15	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 chillin	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	old Mr Fox	chillin		the bench			tree rules
2	play	gerund	the bench not said here					dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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, to test his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 test	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 test	mark
4	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		his wife					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he was hiding from wolves

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	3 hiding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hiding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	he			wolves			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from wolf=Beneficiary

Option 3

yeah, to test his wife and see if she'd wake him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 test	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 test	punct
3	to	to	PART	_	4 test	mark
4	test	test	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wife	nmod:poss
6	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 test	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 see	cc
8	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 test	conj
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	12 wake	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wake	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 wake	aux
12	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 see	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 wake	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	test	to-infinitive		his wife	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme
2	see	infinitive			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	wake a condition, not said to happen	would	wife	him = he	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

he wanted to see whether the cat would bring him lunch first

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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 see	mark
4	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	9 bring	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 bring	aux
9	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 see	ccomp
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bring	obj
11	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bring	obj
12	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 bring	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	want	past	he				vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	see not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	bring	would	the cat	lunch	him = he	first property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination lunch=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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