Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…
Bro, what's the big lesson from this one?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: be · To what, where: big lesson
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 lesson | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 lesson | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 lesson | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lesson | det |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 lesson | amod |
| 7 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bro | appos |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 one | det |
| 10 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lesson | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bro | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Bro | the big lesson | from this one | 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 · ✓ the right answer
Don't push your luck too far
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 push | aux |
| 2 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 push | advmod |
| 3 | push | push | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 luck | nmod:poss |
| 5 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 push | obj |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 far | advmod |
| 7 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 push | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not push | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your luck | far property | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Theme |
Option 2
Trust your neighbours at market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 neighbours | nmod:poss |
| 3 | neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Trust | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 market | case |
| 5 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Trust | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trust | imperative | you not said here | your neighbours | market | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbour=Theme |
Option 3
Be kind to animals
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 kind | cop |
| 2 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 animals | case |
| 4 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 kind | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | to animals; kind property | tree rules |
Option 4
Work hard each day
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 1 Work | advmod |
| 3 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 day | det |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Work | obl:unmarked |
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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