Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

yo so the frog said he was a doctor right, what did the fox say he couldn't even fix

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: say, be, do, not fix · To what, where: doctor, fox · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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	yo	yo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	4 frog	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 frog	det
4	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 yo	nmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doctor	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 doctor	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 doctor	det
9	doctor	doctor	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
10	right	right	ADV	_	9 doctor	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 did	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 did	nsubj
13	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 say	ccomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fox	det
15	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 did	obj
16	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 doctor	parataxis
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 fix	nsubj
18	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 fix	aux
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 fix	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 fix	advmod
21	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 say	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	yo so the frog			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	yo	a doctor	right property	tree rules
3	do	past		the fox		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not fix	could	yo			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent

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

his broken wing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 wing	nmod:poss
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 wing	amod
3	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his own lame legs and his crooked tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
3	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	compound
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tail	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 tail	nmod:poss
7	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 tail	amod
8	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	conj

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his own lame legs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
3	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	compound
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

his own lame legs and his crooked old back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 legs	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 legs	amod
3	lame	lame	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	compound
4	legs	leg	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 back	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 back	nmod:poss
7	crooked	crooked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 back	amod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 back	amod
9	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 legs	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.

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