Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

ngl the hiding hole was well mad, how uncomfy was it

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hiding hole · What happens: ngl, be · To what, where: it

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hole	det
3	hiding	hiding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hole	compound
4	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mad	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 mad	cop
6	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 mad	advmod
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 uncomfy	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 uncomfy	advmod
10	uncomfy	uncomfy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 mad	conj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 it	cop
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	the hiding hole		mad, well property	tree rules
3	be		the hiding hole not said here			tree rules
4	is a	past		it		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 · ✓ the right answer

narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 uncomfortable	cc
3	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	4 uncomfortable	advmod
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 narrow	conj

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

Option 2

narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable, like sleeping in a boot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sleeping	amod
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 uncomfortable	cc
3	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	4 uncomfortable	advmod
4	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 narrow	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sleeping	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	7 sleeping	mark
7	sleeping	sleep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 boot	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 boot	det
10	boot	boot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sleeping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	gerund				a boot			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in boot=Location

Option 3

squashed and pretty grim to be honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	squashed	squash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 grim	cc
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 grim	advmod
4	grim	grim	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 squashed	conj
5	to	to	PART	_	7 honest	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 honest	cop
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 grim	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	squash	participle							vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	is	to-infinitive						honest property	tree rules

Option 4

so narrow and exceedingly uncomfortable that they could barely breathe at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	so	so	ADV	_	2 narrow	advmod
2	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 uncomfortable	cc
4	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	5 uncomfortable	advmod
5	uncomfortable	uncomfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 narrow	conj
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 breathe	mark
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 breathe	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 breathe	aux
9	barely	barely	ADV	_	10 breathe	advmod
10	breathe	breathe	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 narrow	advcl
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 all	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 breathe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	breathe	could	they			all		barely property	vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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