Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Innit, who knocked the horn outta the bloke's grubby hand?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: knock · To what, where: horn outta

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 knocked	nsubj
4	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 outta	det
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 outta	compound
7	outta	outta	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bloke	det
9	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hand	nmod:poss
10	's	's	PART	_	9 bloke	case
11	grubby	grubby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 hand	amod
12	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 knocked	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 knocked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock	past	Innit	the horn outta					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent outta=Destination hand=Theme

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 Crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The Serpent that had been spitting into the horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Serpent	det
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 spitting	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 spitting	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 spitting	aux
6	spitting	spit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Serpent	acl:relcl
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 horn	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 horn	det
9	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 spitting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spit	past · perfect · progressive	the Serpent			the horn			vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

The bloke who was holding the horn at the time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 bloke	det
2	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 holding	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 holding	aux
5	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 bloke	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 horn	det
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 time	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 time	det
10	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 holding	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	past · progressive	the bloke	the horn			time		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The Eagle

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Eagle	det
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	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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