Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

why'd the hare even have a kip?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: have · To what, where: hare

This is test 3 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 have	advmod
2	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	4 hare	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hare	det
4	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obl
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 have	advmod
6	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 kip	det
8	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 have	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 have	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present		the hare					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=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

He was too lazy to run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 run	mark
6	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 lazy	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

He was miles ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 miles	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 miles	cop
3	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	3 miles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	miles				ahead property	tree rules

Option 3

He was feeling sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feeling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 feeling	aux
3	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feeling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	He					sleepy property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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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