Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…
Fam, so the bloke was just a normal shopper, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: be · To what, where: normal shopper
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 shopper | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 shopper | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 bloke | det |
| 5 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shopper | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 shopper | cop |
| 7 | just | just | ADV | _ | 10 shopper | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 shopper | det |
| 9 | normal | normal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 shopper | amod |
| 10 | shopper | shopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Fam | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fam | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 1 Fam | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Fam | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the bloke | a normal shopper | 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 · ← Mova's choice
Yes, he was just a customer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 customer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 customer | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 customer | cop |
| 5 | just | just | ADV | _ | 7 customer | advmod |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 customer | det |
| 7 | customer | customer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a customer | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
No, he was a travelling seller
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 seller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seller | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seller | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seller | det |
| 6 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 seller | amod |
| 7 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a travelling seller | tree rules |
Option 3
No, he was a travelling seller who came to the village to sell salt and sponges
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 7 seller | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seller | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seller | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 seller | det |
| 6 | travelling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 seller | amod |
| 7 | seller | seller | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 seller | acl:relcl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 village | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 village | det |
| 12 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sell | mark |
| 14 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 came | advcl |
| 15 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sell | obj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sponges | cc |
| 17 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 salt | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a travelling seller | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | a travelling seller | the village | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to village=Initial_Location | ||||
| 4 | sell | to-infinitive | a travelling seller not said here | salt and sponges | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Theme |
Option 4
Yes, he was a regular shopper who bought goods from the same shop every week in town
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 7 shopper | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 shopper | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shopper | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shopper | det |
| 6 | regular | regular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shopper | amod |
| 7 | shopper | shopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 bought | nsubj |
| 9 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 shopper | acl:relcl |
| 10 | goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 9 bought | obj |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 14 shop | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 shop | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 shop | amod |
| 14 | shop | shop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl |
| 15 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 week | det |
| 16 | week | week | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 town | case |
| 18 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | he | a regular shopper | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | buy | past | a regular shopper | goods | the same shop | week | in town | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent goods=Theme from shop=Source |
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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