Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…

so what's the moral, proper simple?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be

This is test 4 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	8 simple	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 simple	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 simple	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 simple	det
5	moral	moral	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 simple	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 moral	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 simple	amod
8	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 simple	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						simple property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Slow and steady wins the race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wins	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 steady	cc
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Slow	conj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Slow	the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

Option 2

Slow and steady wins the race, so never sleep mid-run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wins	nsubj
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 steady	cc
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Slow	conj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sleep	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 sleep	advmod
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 sleep	advmod
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 wins	parataxis
11	mid-run	mid-run	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Slow	the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
2	not sleep	infinitive		mid-run					vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mid-run=Theme

Option 3

Never trust a sleepy hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 trust	advmod
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 hare	det
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hare	amod
5	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	imperative	you not said here	a sleepy hare					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Theme

Option 4

Always be quick but never boast about it to anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 quick	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	cop
3	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 boast	cc
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 boast	advmod
6	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 quick	conj
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 boast	obl
9	to	to	ADP	_	10 anyone	case
10	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	6 boast	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					always, quick property	tree rules
2	not boast speech: other	infinitive	you not said here		anyone			about it	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent about it=Topic to anyone=Recipient

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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