Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…
Oi, that Farmer caught a Stork in with the cranes, proper unlucky, innit?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Farmer · What happens: catch, innit · To what, where: Stork
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 146 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight short animal tales about greed, pride, and bad company» 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 5 caught | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 caught | mark |
| 4 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | nsubj |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Stork | det |
| 7 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 cranes | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cranes | det |
| 11 | cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 caught | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 unlucky | punct |
| 13 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 unlucky | amod |
| 14 | unlucky | unlucky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 cranes | amod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 innit | punct |
| 16 | innit | innit | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 14 unlucky | discourse |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | Farmer | a Stork | with the cranes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stork=Theme | |||
| 2 | innit | infinitive | 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
Nah, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 3 innit | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Nah, the Stork was well happy, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Stork | det |
| 4 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 happy | cop |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 happy | advmod |
| 7 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bruv | punct |
| 9 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 happy | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Stork | bruv vocative; happy, well property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, but the Stork was well moaning, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 8 moaning | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 moaning | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 moaning | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Stork | det |
| 5 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moaning | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 moaning | aux |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 moaning | advmod |
| 8 | moaning | moan | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moaning | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | moan | past · progressive | the Stork | mate vocative; well property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Yeah, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 mate | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | 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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