Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…
is "dignity" like being cool in front of everybody?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: dignity, front
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dignity | cop |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dignity | punct |
| 3 | dignity | dignity | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 dignity | punct |
| 5 | like | like | ADP | _ | 7 cool | case |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cool | cop |
| 7 | cool | cool | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dignity | nmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 front | case |
| 9 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cool | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 everybody | case |
| 11 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 9 front | nmod |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dignity | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | dignity | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is | gerund | front of everybody | cool 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
yeah, being proud when you fail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 proud | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 proud | cop |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 fail | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 fail | nsubj |
| 7 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | proud property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fail | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
nah, it's a word for being loud and showing off in front of everybody at school
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 word | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 word | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 word | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 word | det |
| 6 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 loud | case |
| 8 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 loud | cop |
| 9 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 word | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 showing | cc |
| 11 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 loud | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 showing | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 front | case |
| 14 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 showing | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 everybody | case |
| 16 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 14 front | nmod |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 18 school | case |
| 18 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 everybody | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | it | a word | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | loud property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | show off | gerund | front of everybody | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, it means keeping your head high and your pride intact even when things go wrong
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 means | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 means | nsubj |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 means | xcomp |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 high | compound |
| 8 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 keeping | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 intact | cc |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 pride | nmod:poss |
| 11 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 intact | nsubj |
| 12 | intact | intact | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 high | conj |
| 13 | even | even | ADV | _ | 16 go | advmod |
| 14 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 go | advmod |
| 15 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 go | nsubj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 keeping | advcl |
| 17 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean | present | it | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | keep not said to happen | gerund | high property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go | present | things | wrong property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pride | your | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, keeping your pride even when it flops
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 keeping | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 keeping | punct |
| 3 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 pride | nmod:poss |
| 5 | pride | pride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 keeping | obj |
| 6 | even | even | ADV | _ | 9 flops | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 flops | mark |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 flops | nsubj |
| 9 | flops | flop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 keeping | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | gerund | your pride | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pride=Theme | |||||
| 2 | flop | present | pride | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | pride | your | nom pride «feeling transitive»: poss=agent |
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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