Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…
was there a crow or a wolf in this one?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow · What happens: be
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 133 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps for grapes he cannot reach and walks off, calling them sour» 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 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 there | cop |
| 2 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 there | nsubj |
| 5 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 wolf | cc |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 wolf | det |
| 7 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crow | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wolf | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 there | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a crow or a wolf in this one | there 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
yep, a crow was in it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 4 crow | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 it | cop |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crow | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | in crow | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nope, just the fox and the grapes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 fox | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 fox | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 grapes | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 grapes | det |
| 8 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 fox | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yep, a crow sat on the trellis and watched the fox jump all day
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 5 sat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 crow | det |
| 4 | crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | nsubj |
| 5 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 trellis | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 trellis | det |
| 8 | trellis | trellis | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sat | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 watched | cc |
| 10 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sat | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fox | det |
| 12 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 watched | obj |
| 13 | jump | jump | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 watched | xcomp |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 jump | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a crow | the trellis | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on trellis=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | past | a crow not said here | the fox | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | jump | infinitive | the fox not said here | day | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nope, only a rabbit and vine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 5 rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 rabbit | advmod |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 vine | cc |
| 7 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rabbit | conj |
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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