Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Honest question, what kind of animal is the donkey?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Honest question · What happens: be · To what, where: donkey

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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	Honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 question	amod
2	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 donkey	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 kind	punct
4	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	5 kind	det
5	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 question	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 animal	case
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 kind	nmod
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 donkey	cop
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 donkey	det
10	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 donkey	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Honest question	the donkey					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 · ✓ the right answer

A donkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A hardy animal that carries heavy goods on its back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 animal	det
2	hardy	hardy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animal	amod
3	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 carries	nsubj
5	carries	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 animal	acl:relcl
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 goods	amod
7	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	5 carries	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 back	case
9	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 back	nmod:poss
10	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 carries	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry	present	a hardy animal	heavy goods		animal's back			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme

Option 3

An animal that pulls carts for farmers in the valley

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 animal	det
2	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 pulls	nsubj
4	pulls	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 animal	acl:relcl
5	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulls	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 farmers	case
7	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 pulls	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 valley	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 valley	det
10	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulls	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	present	a animal	carts		the valley		for farmers	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent cart=Theme for farmer=Beneficiary

Option 4

A camel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 camel	det
2	camel	camel	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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