--- title: Why'd the fox hide under that fir root, like? — Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:… · tree and pragmatics description: Why'd the fox hide under that fir root, like? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the… Why'd the fox hide under that fir root, like? **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** fox · **What happens:** hide · **To what, where:** fir root This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1243 «Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the bear into a fire, then cheats a Lapp of his reindeer.» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/1243-pg3282-part44/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t1:1 # text = Why'd the fox hide under that fir root, like? 1 Why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 5 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 2 'd would AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 4 det _ _ 4 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 5 hide hide VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 under under ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 7 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 9 det _ _ 8 fir fir NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 compound _ _ 9 root root NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 11 like like ADP IN _ 5 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 12 ? ? PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | would | the fox | | | that fir root | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under root=Location | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1} To rest ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t1:o1:1 # text = To rest 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 rest rest VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **rest** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ### Option 2 {#o2} To nap ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t1:o2:1 # text = To nap 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 nap nap VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **nap** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3} To dodge danger ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t1:o3:1 # text = To dodge danger 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 dodge dodge VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 danger danger NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **dodge** | to-infinitive | | danger | | | | | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent danger=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} To hide from the hunter ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t1:o4:1 # text = To hide from the hunter 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 hide hide VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 from from ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 hunter hunter NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hide** | to-infinitive | | | | the hunter | | | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from hunter=Beneficiary | **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. 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