Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…
lol that parrot was well loud innit
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: parrot · What happens: be · To what, where: loud innit
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 innit | discourse |
| 2 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 parrot | det |
| 3 | parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 innit | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 innit | cop |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 loud | advmod |
| 6 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 innit | amod |
| 7 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | that parrot | loud innit | 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
yeah, it was screaming on the mantelpiece and then it started shouting at the cat, mate
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 screaming | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 screaming | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 screaming | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 screaming | aux |
| 5 | screaming | scream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mantelpiece | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mantelpiece | det |
| 8 | mantelpiece | mantelpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 screaming | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 started | cc |
| 10 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 started | advmod |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 started | nsubj |
| 12 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 screaming | conj |
| 13 | shouting | shout | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 started | xcomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 cat | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cat | det |
| 16 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shouting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mate | punct |
| 18 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream speech: express | past · progressive | it | the mantelpiece | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mantelpiece=Location | ||||
| 2 | start | past | mantelpiece | then | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | shout speech: express | gerund | mantelpiece not said here | at the cat and mate | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
yeah, it chattered on the windowsill
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 chattered | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 chattered | nsubj |
| 4 | chattered | chatter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 windowsill | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 windowsill | det |
| 7 | windowsill | windowsill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chattered | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | chatter | past | it | the windowsill | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on windowsill=Location |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, it screamed away on the mantelpiece
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mantelpiece | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mantelpiece | det |
| 8 | mantelpiece | mantelpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream away speech: express | past | it | the mantelpiece | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mantelpiece=Location |
Option 4
yeah, it screamed away on the mantelpiece the whole time and woke the cat up, innit
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 screamed | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 screamed | punct |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 screamed | nsubj |
| 4 | screamed | scream | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 screamed | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 mantelpiece | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 mantelpiece | det |
| 8 | mantelpiece | mantelpiece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 time | det |
| 10 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 time | amod |
| 11 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 screamed | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 woke | cc |
| 13 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 screamed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 cat | det |
| 15 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 woke | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 woke | compound:prt |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 innit | punct |
| 18 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 screamed | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scream away speech: express | past | it | the mantelpiece | time | away property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on mantelpiece=Location | ||
| 2 | wake up | past | the cat | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | |||||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | 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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