Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…
Wait, what's the apple called again?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, be, call · To what, where: apple · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 apple | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 apple | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 apple | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 apple | det |
| 6 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Wait | obl |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 apple | acl |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 called | advmod |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | the apple | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | call | participle | the apple not said here | again | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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 apple of Eris, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mate | compound |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 Eris | case |
| 4 | Eris | Eris | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 apple | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 apple | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
Some apple thing that made the gods fight, mate, I forget the name
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 thing | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thing | compound |
| 3 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forget | nsubj:outer |
| 4 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 made | nsubj |
| 5 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thing | acl:relcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gods | det |
| 7 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 made | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 mate | punct |
| 10 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 made | vocative |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 forget | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 forget | nsubj |
| 13 | forget | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 name | det |
| 15 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 forget | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | some apple thing | mate vocative | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight | present | the gods | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | forget | present | some apple thing | the name | tree rules |
Option 3
The apple of eternal strife among the gods, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 strife | case |
| 4 | eternal | eternal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 strife | amod |
| 5 | strife | strife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 apple | nmod |
| 6 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 gods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 apple | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 innit | punct |
| 10 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gods | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The apple of discord, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 apple | det |
| 2 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 discord | case |
| 4 | discord | discord | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 apple | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 apple | conj |
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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