Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

the wolf blamed the fox for a theft, mate, who had to sort that out

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf, theft · What happens: blame, have, sort out · To what, where: fox, that

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blamed	nsubj
3	blamed	blame	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blamed	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 theft	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 theft	det
8	theft	theft	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blamed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 theft	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 theft	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 sort	mark
15	sort	sort	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 sort	obj
17	out	out	ADP	_	15 sort	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blame	past	the wolf	the fox	for a theft and mate	vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent fox=Theme for theft=Attribute
2	have	past	a theft and mate			tree rules
3	sort out	to-infinitive	a theft and mate not said here	that		vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

an ape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ape	det
2	ape	ape	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a wise old monkey from the jungle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 monkey	det
2	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monkey	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 monkey	amod
4	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 jungle	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jungle	det
7	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 monkey	nmod

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

Option 3

a judge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the lion, who was king of the whole forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lion	det
2	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 king	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 king	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 king	cop
6	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lion	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	10 forest	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 forest	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 forest	amod
10	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the lion	king				of the whole forest	tree rules

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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