Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Proper quick question, what does a pannier look like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pannier · What happens: look · To what, where: Proper quick question

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 question	amod
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 question	amod
3	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 look	obl
6	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	aux
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pannier	det
8	pannier	pannier	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 question	acl:relcl
10	like	like	ADP	_	9 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 question	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	present · do-support	a pannier	Proper quick question					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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

A bag on the donkey's back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bag	det
2	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	7 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 donkey	det
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 back	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 donkey	case
7	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bag	nmod

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

Option 2

Two big bags hung over the donkey's back, one on each side

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bags	nummod
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bags	amod
3	bags	bag	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hung	nsubj
4	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 back	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 donkey	det
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 back	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 donkey	case
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hung	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 hung	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 side	case
13	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	14 side	det
14	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	Two big bags			the donkey's back			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over back=Location

Option 3

A long leather strap that goes under the donkey's tail and round its belly

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 strap	det
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 strap	amod
3	leather	leather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strap	compound
4	strap	strap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 goes	nsubj
6	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 strap	acl:relcl
7	under	under	ADP	_	11 tail	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 tail	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 donkey	case
11	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 goes	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 round	cc
13	round	round	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 goes	conj
14	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 belly	nmod:poss
15	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 round	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	a long leather strap			the donkey's tail			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under tail=Location
2	round	infinitive	a long leather strap not said here	tail's belly					vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent belly=Patient

Option 4

A bundle on the road

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bundle	det
2	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 road	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 road	det
5	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bundle	nmod

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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