Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…
the countryman had a pig stashed in his smock, lol
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: countryman · What happens: have, stash · To what, where: pig, smock
This is test 10 · ★ 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 countryman | det |
| 2 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 pig | det |
| 5 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 had | obj |
| 6 | stashed | stash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 pig | acl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 smock | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 smock | nmod:poss |
| 9 | smock | smock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stashed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 had | punct |
| 11 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 had | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the countryman | a pig | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient | ||||
| 2 | stash | participle | a pig not said here | countryman's smock | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in smock=Destination |
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
Nah, a big rabbit, bare cheeky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 rabbit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 rabbit | det |
| 4 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rabbit | amod |
| 5 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 rabbit | punct |
| 7 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cheeky | amod |
| 8 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 rabbit | amod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a young porker, bare cheeky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 porker | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 porker | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 porker | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 porker | amod |
| 5 | porker | porker | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 porker | punct |
| 7 | bare | bare | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cheeky | amod |
| 8 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 porker | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Nah, a goose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 goose | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 goose | det |
| 4 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Yeah, a young lamb, dead cheeky
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lamb | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lamb | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lamb | det |
| 4 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lamb | amod |
| 5 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lamb | punct |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 cheeky | amod |
| 8 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 lamb | 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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