Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Tortoise and the Hare: the Hare sleeps…
the clown was dead good at the pig noise, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: clown · What happens: be · To what, where: pig noise
This is test 9 · ★ 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 clown | det |
| 2 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 good | cop |
| 4 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 good | amod |
| 5 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 noise | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 noise | det |
| 8 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 noise | compound |
| 9 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 good | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 yeah | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 good | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 good | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the clown | the pig noise | good 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
Nah, the crowd thought he was a goat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | 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 | 9 goat | nsubj |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 goat | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 goat | det |
| 9 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | ccomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the crowd | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | crowd | a goat | tree rules |
Option 2
Nah, a dog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dog | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the crowd thought he had a pig
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 thought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thought | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 crowd | det |
| 4 | crowd | crowd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 thought | nsubj |
| 5 | thought | think | 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 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 thought | ccomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pig | det |
| 9 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the crowd | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | crowd | a pig | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pig=Patient |
Option 4
Yeah, a donkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 donkey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 donkey | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 donkey | det |
| 4 | donkey | donkey | 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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