Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Wicked, what was the Rogue hiding under his cloak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rogue · What happens: be, hide · To what, where: Rogue, cloak

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Rogue	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 Rogue	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Rogue	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Rogue	det
6	Rogue	rogue	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wicked	obl
7	hiding	hide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Rogue	acl
8	under	under	ADP	_	10 cloak	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 cloak	nmod:poss
10	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hiding	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wicked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Rogue					tree rules
2	hide	gerund	the Rogue not said here			his cloak			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under cloak=Location

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 right answer

A little bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bird	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bird	amod
3	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A tiny sparrow the Rogue thought nobody would find

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sparrow	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sparrow	amod
3	sparrow	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thought	nsubj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Rogue	det
5	Rogue	Rogue	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 sparrow	appos
6	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 thought	obj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 find	aux
9	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 nobody	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	a tiny sparrow	nobody					vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot nobody=Theme
2	find	would							vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

Option 3

A small owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 owl	det
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 owl	amod
3	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

A tiny crow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 crow	det
2	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 crow	amod
3	crow	crow	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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