Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…
Ngl, what did the Cub do in the Blind Man's tale?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, Cub, Blind Man · What happens: do, tell · To what, where: tale · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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 | Ngl | Ngl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Ngl | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cub | det |
| 6 | Cub | Cub | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tale | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Man | det |
| 10 | Blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Man | amod |
| 11 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 tale | nmod:poss |
| 12 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 11 Man | case |
| 13 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Ngl | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | present | the Cub | the Blind Man's tale | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | tell | the Blind Man | nom tale «communication intransitive»: poss=agent |
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
Was touched
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 touched | aux:pass |
| 2 | touched | touch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | touch | past · passive | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V» |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Ran off into the woods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ran | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | off | off | ADP | _ | 1 Ran | compound:prt |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 woods | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 woods | det |
| 5 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Ran | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | participle | into the woods result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into wood=Result |
Option 3
Was held up to be felt
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 held | aux:pass |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 held | compound:prt |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 felt | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 felt | aux:pass |
| 6 | felt | feel | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 held | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold up | past · passive | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP» | ||||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive · passive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute» |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Got passed into his hands to feel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 passed | aux:pass |
| 2 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | into | into | ADP | _ | 5 hands | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 hands | nmod:poss |
| 5 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 passed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 feel | mark |
| 7 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 passed | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · passive | his hands | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: into hand=Initial_Location | |||||
| 2 | feel | to-infinitive | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
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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