Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Honestly, what did the Hunter say the hare was meant as?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hunter · What happens: say, mean · To what, where: hare · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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	Honestly	honestly	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Honestly	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Hunter	det
6	Hunter	Hunter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 hare	det
9	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 meant	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 meant	aux:pass
11	meant	mean	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
12	as	as	ADP	_	11 meant	case
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Hunter					honestly property	tree rules
2	mean	past · passive		the hare					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic

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

A payment for the horse he had already ridden

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 payment	det
2	payment	payment	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 horse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horse	det
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 payment	nmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 ridden	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ridden	aux
8	already	already	ADV	_	9 ridden	advmod
9	ridden	ride	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 payment	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ride	past · perfect	horse	a payment for the horse not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent payment=Theme

Option 2

A prize

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 prize	det
2	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A present

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 present	det
2	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A reward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 reward	det
2	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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