Test 8 · ★ · Grimm's Fairy Tales, The Wishing-Cloak, part 55: a sister…

so the wolf got rejected for no good reason, ngl

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: reject · To what, where: wolf

This is test 8 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 rejected	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rejected	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rejected	aux:pass
5	rejected	reject	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 reason	case
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 reason	det
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 reason	amod
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rejected	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 ngl	punct
11	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 reason	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reject	past · passive		the wolf				for no good reason and ngl	vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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

his mouth was too round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 mouth	nmod:poss
2	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 round	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 round	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 round	advmod
5	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	his mouth					round property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he wore the wrong shoes

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 wore	nsubj
2	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
4	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shoes	amod
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	he	the wrong shoes					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent shoe=Theme

Option 3

he had red stockings but his mouth was not pointed enough

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stockings	amod
4	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 had	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 pointed	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mouth	nmod:poss
7	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pointed	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pointed	aux:pass
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 pointed	advmod
10	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 had	conj
11	enough	enough	ADV	_	10 pointed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he	red stockings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stocking=Patient
2	not point	past · passive		his mouth				enough property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he didn't have red stockings

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	4 have	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	red	red	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 stockings	amod
6	stockings	stocking	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · do-support	he	red stockings					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stocking=Patient

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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