Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…
Wicked, what did the bloke buy after he cottoned on?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bloke · What happens: buy, cotton on
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 buy | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 buy | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bloke | det |
| 6 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 buy | nsubj |
| 7 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wicked | parataxis |
| 8 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 cottoned | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 cottoned | nsubj |
| 10 | cottoned | cotton | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 buy | advcl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 cottoned | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | past · do-support | the bloke | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 2 | cotton on | past | bloke | 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
Lots of wool and cloth for the winter season
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lots | lot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 wool | case |
| 3 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | nmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 cloth | cc |
| 5 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wool | conj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 season | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 season | det |
| 8 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 season | compound |
| 9 | season | season | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lots | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Some more bags
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 bags | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 bags | amod |
| 3 | bags | bag | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Bread and tea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 tea | cc |
| 3 | tea | tea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bread | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Loads more salt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loads | load | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 salt | amod |
| 3 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Loads | conj |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/137-pg11339-part7/t3/