Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…
Mate, that Ass is proper loud in the cave, right? What's the Lion's reaction?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, reaction, Lion · What happens: be, react · To what, where: cave
This is test 2 · ★ 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: Mate, that Ass is proper loud in the cave, right?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loud | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 loud | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 loud | mark |
| 4 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loud | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 loud | cop |
| 6 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 7 loud | advmod |
| 7 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 cave | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 cave | det |
| 10 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 loud | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 loud | punct |
| 12 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 loud | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 loud | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | Mate | the cave | loud, properly 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.
Sentence 2: What's the Lion's reaction?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lion | det |
| 4 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 reaction | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lion | case |
| 6 | reaction | reaction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Lion's reaction | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | react | the Lion | nom reaction «process intransitive»: poss=agent |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
He grabs the goats one at a time
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 grabs | nsubj |
| 2 | grabs | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goats | det |
| 4 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grabs | obj |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 goats | flat |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 time | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 time | det |
| 8 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grabs | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grab | present | He | the goats | time | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goat=Theme |
Option 2
He runs off, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 runs | nsubj |
| 2 | runs | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 runs | compound:prt |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 runs | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | present | He | mate vocative | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
He rounds up goats, takes a nap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 rounds | nsubj |
| 2 | rounds | round | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 rounds | compound:prt |
| 4 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 rounds | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 takes | punct |
| 6 | takes | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 rounds | conj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 nap | det |
| 8 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 takes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | round up | present | He | goats | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent goat=Patient | ||||
| 2 | take | present | He not said here | a nap | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
He nails the goats one by one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 goats | nsubj |
| 2 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 He | nmod:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 goats | det |
| 4 | goats | goat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 goats | flat |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 one | case |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 one | nmod |
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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