Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

So the mouse saved the lion, bare ace, what with?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: save · To what, where: lion

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 saved	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mouse	det
3	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	nsubj
4	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ace	punct
8	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 ace	amod
9	ace	ace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 saved	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 what	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ace	nmod
12	with	with	ADP	_	11 what	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 saved	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	past	the mouse	the lion				bare ace obl	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme

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

Its teeth on the rope

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 rope	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rope	det
5	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 teeth	nmod

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

Option 2

Its paws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 paws	nmod:poss
2	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

Its claws on the net

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 claws	nmod:poss
2	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 net	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 net	det
5	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 claws	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Its teeth on the ropes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 teeth	nmod:poss
2	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 ropes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 ropes	det
5	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 teeth	nmod

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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