Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

yo, what was the hound chasing, no lie?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: hound chasing

This is test 11 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 chasing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 chasing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 chasing	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 chasing	det
6	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	compound
7	chasing	chasing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 lie	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 lie	det
10	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chasing	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 chasing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hound chasing and no lie					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 king's old hunting dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 king	case
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dog	amod
5	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	compound
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a boar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

a fierce lion from the grassland

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 lion	det
2	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lion	amod
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 grassland	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 grassland	det
6	grassland	grassland	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lion	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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