Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

mate, the town mouse was well full of himself, wasn't he? what did he call his larder

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate, mouse · What happens: be, not be

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
4	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouse	compound
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 full	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 full	cop
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 full	advmod
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 full	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 full	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 call	cop
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 call	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	19 call	punct
16	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 call	obj
17	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 call	aux
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 call	nsubj
19	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 full	parataxis
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 larder	nmod:poss
21	larder	larder	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	mate					of mouse; full, well property	tree rules
2	not is	past · do-support	mouse					call 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

a big stash of food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stash	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 stash	amod
3	stash	stash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stash	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stash			food					nom stash «possession transitive»: of=patient

Option 2

a horn of plenty full of posh grub and wine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plenty	case
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horn	nmod
5	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 plenty	amod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 grub	case
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 grub	amod
8	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 full	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 wine	cc
10	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 grub	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a golden pantry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pantry	det
2	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pantry	amod
3	pantry	pantry	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a horn of plenty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 horn	det
2	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 plenty	case
4	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horn	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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