Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

fr why'd the peasant wanna chop the apple tree

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: peasant · What happens: chop · To what, where: apple tree

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 chop	advmod
3	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 chop	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 peasant	det
5	peasant	peasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 chop	nsubj
6	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 chop	dep
7	chop	chop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
9	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	compound
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	infinitive	the peasant	the apple tree					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient

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

too old

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 old	advmod
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

it was all dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 dead	advmod
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					all, dead property	tree rules

Option 3

it was too tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tall	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tall	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					tall property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

no fruit on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 fruit	det
2	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	4 it	case
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fruit	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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