Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Mate, who actually nicked the butcher's meat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: nick · To what, where: meat

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 nicked	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 nicked	advmod
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 butcher	det
7	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 meat	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 butcher	case
9	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past		the butcher's meat				actually property	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

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 fox was the one, I reckon, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 one	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 one	det
5	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
7	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 one	acl:relcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the fox	the one and mate					tree rules
2	reckon	present	I	the one and mate not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent one=Attribute

Option 2

The fox did, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the fox	bruv					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bruv=Eventuality

Option 3

Dunno, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	vocative

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Both of them were lying, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lying	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lying	aux
5	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 lying	punct
7	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 lying	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past · progressive	Both						tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	Both not said here						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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/155-pg11339-part25/t1/