Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…
Oi, who actually nicked the kid while the Lion and Bear were knackered?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: nick, knacker · To what, where: kid, Lion
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» 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 | Oi | Oi | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nicked | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 nicked | nsubj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 nicked | advmod |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | obj |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 knackered | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lion | det |
| 10 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 knackered | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 Bear | cc |
| 12 | Bear | Bear | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Lion | conj |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 knackered | aux:pass |
| 14 | knackered | knacker | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 nicked | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 nicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past | Oi | the kid | actually property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Patient | |||
| 2 | knacker | past · passive | the Lion and Bear | 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
The Wolf, mate, dead sly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dead | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Wolf | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Wolf | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | sly | sly | ADV | _ | 6 dead | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Vixen, bruv, proper quick
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Vixen | det |
| 2 | Vixen | Vixen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 quick | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bruv | punct |
| 4 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Vixen | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Vixen | punct |
| 6 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Vixen | xcomp |
| 7 | quick | quick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Fox, mate, dead sneaky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sneaky | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sneaky | amod |
| 7 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Some sneaky fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 fox | det |
| 2 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fox | amod |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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