Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…
The Tunny and the Dolphin are stuck on a sandbank, gasping. Who's dying first, innit?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · What happens: stick, die, innit · To what, where: Tunny, sandbank
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 144 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful Ass, a robbed Prophet, and other clever beasts» 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
Sentence 1: The Tunny and the Dolphin are stuck on a sandbank, gasping.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tunny | det |
| 2 | Tunny | Tunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Dolphin | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Dolphin | det |
| 5 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tunny | conj |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 stuck | aux:pass |
| 7 | stuck | stick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 sandbank | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 sandbank | det |
| 10 | sandbank | sandbank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stuck | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gasping | punct |
| 12 | gasping | gasping | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sandbank | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stick | present · passive | the Tunny and the Dolphin | a sandbank and gasping | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on sandbank=Destination |
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.
Sentence 2: Who's dying first, innit?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 dying | nsubj |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | aux |
| 3 | dying | die | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 dying | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 innit | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 dying | parataxis |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 dying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | die | present · progressive | first property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
Both of them, they're doomed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Both | nmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Both | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 doomed | nsubj |
| 6 | 're | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 doomed | aux:pass |
| 7 | doomed | doom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Both | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doom | present · passive | they | tree rules |
Option 2
Neither, they both survive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Neither | neither | ADV | _ | 5 survive | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Neither | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 survive | nsubj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 survive | advmod |
| 5 | survive | survive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | survive | present | they | both property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The Tunny, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tunny | det |
| 2 | Tunny | Tunny | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tunny | appos |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Only the Dolphin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Only | only | ADV | _ | 3 Dolphin | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Dolphin | det |
| 3 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | 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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