Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…
lowkey, what killed the labourer's lil son?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: kill · To what, where: lil son
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 killed | nsubj |
| 4 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 labourer | det |
| 6 | labourer | labourer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 6 labourer | case |
| 8 | lil | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 killed | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 killed | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | past | lowkey | the labourer's lil son | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=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 farmer's old dog that wandered in
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dog | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 farmer | case |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 dog | amod |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 wandered | nsubj |
| 7 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 dog | acl:relcl |
| 8 | in | in | ADV | _ | 7 wandered | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | the farmer's old dog | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
a large venomous snake from the field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 snake | det |
| 2 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snake | amod |
| 3 | venomous | venomous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 snake | amod |
| 4 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 field | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 field | det |
| 7 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 snake | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a stray cat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cat | det |
| 2 | stray | stray | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 cat | amod |
| 3 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a snake bite
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bite | det |
| 2 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bite | compound |
| 3 | bite | bite | 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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