Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

wait, the tortoise actually beat the hare, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, tortoise · What happens: wait, beat · To what, where: hare

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 143 «Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps and the Tortoise wins the race» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 beat	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	nsubj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 beat	advmod
6	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 beat	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruv	punct
10	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hare	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	beat	present	the tortoise	the hare and bruv				actually property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme

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

Nah, the tortoise got lost on the way and quit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 lost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lost	aux:pass
6	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 way	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 way	det
9	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lost	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 quit	cc
11	quit	quit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 way	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · passive		the tortoise		the way and quit			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the hare fell asleep mid-race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fell	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mid-race	amod
7	mid-race	mid-race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the hare	asleep mid-race					vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient mid-race=Result

Option 3

Nah, the tortoise ran off mid-race lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tortoise	det
4	tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	nsubj
5	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 ran	compound:prt
7	mid-race	mid-race	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ran	obj
8	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 ran	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the tortoise	mid-race					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mid-race=Trajectory

Option 4

Nah, the hare didn't sleep, he just took a massive lead and kept it going all the way

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 sleep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleep	nsubj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 sleep	advmod
7	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 took	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 took	nsubj
10	just	just	ADV	_	11 took	advmod
11	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sleep	parataxis
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 lead	det
13	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lead	amod
14	lead	lead	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 took	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 kept	cc
16	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 took	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 kept	obj
18	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	16 kept	xcomp
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 way	det:predet
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 way	det
21	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 going	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not sleep	past · do-support	the hare		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	take	past	hare	a massive lead	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lead=Theme
3	keep	past	hare not said here	lead	tree rules
4	go	gerund	lead not said here	all way	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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