Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…
The doctor who made the old lady pay up, what did he nick?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor, old lady · What happens: make, pay up, nick · To what, where: old lady
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 doctor | det |
| 2 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lady | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lady | amod |
| 7 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | xcomp |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 pay | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 nick | punct |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 nick | obj |
| 12 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 nick | aux |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 nick | nsubj |
| 14 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 pay | conj |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the doctor | the old lady | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | pay up | infinitive | the old lady not said here | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | nick | past · do-support | doctor | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Some silver from her shelf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 silver | det |
| 2 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 shelf | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shelf | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shelf | shelf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 silver | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Her cash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 cash | nmod:poss |
| 2 | cash | cash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cash | Her = she | nom cash «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Stuff out of her house
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 house | nmod:poss |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Stuff | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Her coat from the hallway
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coat | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coat | coat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 5 hallway | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hallway | det |
| 5 | hallway | hallway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 coat | 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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