Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…
did the horse actually turn into a donkey?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, turn · To what, where: horse
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 did | obj |
| 4 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 5 turn | advmod |
| 5 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 did | advcl |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 donkey | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 donkey | det |
| 8 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turn | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | turn | present | into a donkey result; actually property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into donkey=Result |
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
Yeah, he said he was a mule
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 mule | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 mule | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 mule | det |
| 8 | mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a mule | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, he just said he felt like a donkey, and a bit of a fool
The tree, 15 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 5 said | advmod |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 8 | like | like | ADP | _ | 10 donkey | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 donkey | det |
| 10 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 felt | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 bit | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 bit | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 bit | det |
| 14 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 fool | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 fool | det |
| 17 | fool | fool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bit | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | a bit of a fool | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | feel | past | he | like a donkey | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like donkey=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he said he was an ass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ass | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ass | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ass | det |
| 8 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a ass | tree rules |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he said he was an ass and then went off to the fields
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 ass | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 ass | cop |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 ass | det |
| 8 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | ccomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 went | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 11 went | advmod |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 went | compound:prt |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 fields | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fields | det |
| 15 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 went | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | he | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | he | a ass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | he not said here | then | to the fields | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme |
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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