--- title: What's the bear grabbin' hold of, mate? — Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear:… · tree and pragmatics description: What's the bear grabbin' hold of, mate? Test 2 · ★ 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 option --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/1243-pg3282-part44/t2/) [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/) / t2 # Test 2 · ★ · Far North tales, The Fox and the Bear: the fox tricks the… What's the bear grabbin' hold of, mate? **Mova's choice:** option 2 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** bear grabbin · **What happens:** be, hold · **To what, where:** mate This is test 2 · ★ 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/#t2). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t2:1 # text = What's the bear grabbin' hold of, mate? 1 What what PRON WP PronType=Int 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 's be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 compound _ _ 5 grabbin grabbin NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 ' ' PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ _ 7 hold hold NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 appos _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 10 case _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 10 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **is a** | present | the bear grabbin | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **hold** | | | mate | | | | | nom hold «act transitive»: of=patient | 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 {#o1} The tail of the fox that he shook off ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t2:o1:1 # text = The tail of the fox that he shook off 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 off off ADP RP _ 8 compound:prt _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **shake off** | past | the tail of the fox | | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ← Mova's choice {#o2} The bear's tail ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t2:o2:1 # text = The bear's tail 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 bear bear NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 {#o3} The fox's bushy red tail, mate ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t2:o3:1 # text = The fox's bushy red tail, mate 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 bushy bushy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 5 red red ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 8 mate mate NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} The fox's tail ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:1243-pg3282-part44:t2:o4:1 # text = The fox's tail 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nmod:poss _ SpaceAfter=No 3 's 's PART POS _ 2 case _ _ 4 tail tail NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. **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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