Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

who was the ref for the race, like the umpire?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: ref

This is test 2 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ref	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ref	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ref	det
4	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 race	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ref	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 umpire	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 umpire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 umpire	det
11	umpire	umpire	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ref	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 ref	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the ref and the umpire				for the race	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 · ← Mova's choice

A lion who sat on the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lion	acl:relcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 bank	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a lion			the bank			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location

Option 2

The crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The fox

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	root	root

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

Option 4

The wolf

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	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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