Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

wait, which dude fell in the dry well while staring at the sky?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, fall, stare · To what, where: dry well

This is test 3 · ★ 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	_	5 fell	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 fell	nsubj
4	dude	dude	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 which	aux
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 well	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 well	det
8	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 well	amod
9	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	11 staring	mark
11	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 fell	advcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 sky	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sky	det
14	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 staring	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fall	past		the dry well		vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in well=Location
3	stare	gerund			at the sky	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at sky=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 labourer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 labourer	det
2	labourer	labourer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the old man who was staring at the moon

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 man	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 staring	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 staring	aux
6	staring	stare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 man	acl:relcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 moon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moon	det
9	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 staring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stare	past · progressive	the old man					at the moon	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at moon=Theme

Option 3

the woodman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodman	det
2	woodman	woodman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

the astronomer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 astronomer	det
2	astronomer	astronomer	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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