Test 10 · ★ · pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steal…

ok so what was the thing the lion was scared of by the tree?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: be · To what, where: thing

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 1246 «pg3282, The Lion and the Wild Cat, part 47: the lion steals the golden ball, and the old cat sees a copy of it» 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	_	6 thing	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 thing	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 thing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scared	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	cop
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 thing	acl:relcl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 tree	case
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 tree	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tree	det
14	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 scared	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 thing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the thing					tree rules
2	is	past	the lion	the thing not said here				of the tree; scared property	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

A tiger lying on a branch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tiger	det
2	tiger	tiger	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 tiger	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 branch	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 branch	det
6	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	gerund	a tiger not said here			a branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

A bear waiting to drop down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bear	det
2	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 bear	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 drop	mark
5	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 waiting	xcomp
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 drop	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	a bear not said here						tree rules
2	drop down	to-infinitive	a bear not said here						vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

A hungry wolf in the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
2	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 wolf	amod
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 grass	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grass	det
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wolf	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

A snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 snake	det
2	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	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. Elamur Cosmic License.

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