Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…
Lol, what did the fox try to nick from the sheep?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fox · What happens: try, nick
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 try | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 try | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 try | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 try | nsubj |
| 7 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 nick | mark |
| 9 | nick | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 try | xcomp |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 sheep | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 sheep | det |
| 12 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 nick | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 try | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past · do-support | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nick not said to happen | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | from the sheep | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=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
A little ram, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 ram | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 ram | amod |
| 3 | ram | ram | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mate | punct |
| 5 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ram | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A hen, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hen | det |
| 2 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hen | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hen | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A goose, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 goose | det |
| 2 | goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 goose | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
A lamb, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 lamb | det |
| 2 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 innit | punct |
| 4 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lamb | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/155-pg11339-part25/t5/