Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…
the wolf got robbed by a lion, lowkey gutted
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: rob, gut · To what, where: wolf
This is test 8 · ★ 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 wolf | det |
| 2 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robbed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 robbed | aux:pass |
| 4 | robbed | rob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 lion | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 lion | det |
| 7 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 robbed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gutted | punct |
| 9 | lowkey | lowkey | ADV | _ | 10 gutted | advmod |
| 10 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 robbed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rob | past · passive | a lion | the wolf | vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Source | ||||
| 2 | gut | participle | a lion not said here | lowkey property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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
Yeah, a bear
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 bear | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 bear | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 bear | det |
| 4 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, a hare nicked his lamb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 nicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hare | det |
| 4 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 nicked | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | participle · passive | a hare | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary lamb=Theme |
Option 3
Yeah, a fox took his goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 fox | det |
| 4 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 goat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a fox | fox's goat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument goat=Destination |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, a lion took his lamb
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 took | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 took | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 lion | det |
| 4 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | nsubj |
| 5 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 lamb | nmod:poss |
| 7 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 took | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | a lion | lion's lamb | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument lamb=Destination |
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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