Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

Mercury, the god with the winged shoes, what did he fish out first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mercury · What happens: wing, fish out · To what, where: god

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 god	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 god	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 god	det
4	god	god	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 shoes	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shoes	det
7	winged	wing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 shoes	amod
8	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 god	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fish	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 fish	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 fish	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fish	nsubj
13	fish	fish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 god	parataxis
14	out	out	ADP	_	13 fish	compound:prt
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 fish	advmod
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 god	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wing	participle							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
2	fish out	past · do-support	Mercury	the god with the winged shoes				first property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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

A bronze axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axe	det
2	bronze	bronze	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

Silver

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

A spade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spade	det
2	spade	spade	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A golden axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 axe	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 axe	amod
3	axe	axe	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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