Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…
wait, what did the herdsman promise jupiter if he caught the thief?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: wait, do, catch · To what, where: promise jupiter, thief
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jupiter | det |
| 6 | herdsman | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 promise | compound |
| 7 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 jupiter | compound |
| 8 | jupiter | jupiter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 9 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 caught | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 caught | nsubj |
| 11 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 thief | det |
| 13 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 caught | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the promise jupiter | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jupiter=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | catch a condition, not said to happen | past | he | the thief | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
a calf
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 calf | det |
| 2 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
a fine white heifer from his flock
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 heifer | det |
| 2 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heifer | amod |
| 3 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 heifer | amod |
| 4 | heifer | heifer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 flock | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 flock | nmod:poss |
| 7 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 heifer | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the best bull in the whole herd
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 bull | det |
| 2 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 3 bull | amod |
| 3 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 herd | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 herd | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 herd | amod |
| 7 | herd | herd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bull | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a bull
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bull | det |
| 2 | bull | bull | 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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