Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…
yo, so the lion just straight up wants the bull for dinner, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: want · To what, where: bull
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 154 «Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bull, a parrot scolds a cat, a stag and a sick man get their comeuppance» 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 | _ | 9 wants | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yo | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 wants | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lion | det |
| 5 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wants | nsubj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 7 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 8 up | advmod |
| 8 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 lion | advmod |
| 9 | wants | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bull | det |
| 11 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wants | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 dinner | case |
| 13 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bull | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 wants | punct |
| 15 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 9 wants | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 wants | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | the lion | the bull | for dinner | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot bull=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
yeah, he's hungry
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 hungry | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 hungry | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 hungry | cop |
| 5 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | hungry property | tree rules |
Option 2
nah, he fancies the cows more and is just having a nap
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 fancies | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fancies | nsubj |
| 4 | fancies | fancy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 cows | det |
| 6 | cows | cow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fancies | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 fancies | advmod |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 having | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 having | aux |
| 10 | just | just | ADV | _ | 11 having | advmod |
| 11 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fancies | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 nap | det |
| 13 | nap | nap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 having | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fancy | present | he | the cows | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cow=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | have | present · progressive | he not said here | a nap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=Patient |
Option 3
yeah, for dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 dinner | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 dinner | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 dinner | case |
| 4 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he's starving and the bull's a massive snack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 starving | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 starving | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 starving | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 starving | aux |
| 5 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 snack | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bull | det |
| 8 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 snack | nsubj |
| 9 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 snack | cop |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 snack | det |
| 11 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 snack | amod |
| 12 | snack | snack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 starving | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | present · progressive | he | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the bull | a massive snack | tree rules |
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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