Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Proper, what did the Oracle say the bird depended on?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oracle, bird · What happens: say, depend on · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	7 say	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Proper	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 Oracle	det
6	Oracle	Oracle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 depended	nsubj
10	depended	depend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 depended	compound:prt
12	?	?	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 Oracle					properly property	tree rules
2	depend on	past	the bird						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

Luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

The gods' wish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gods	det
2	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wish	nmod:poss
3	'	's	PART	_	2 gods	case
4	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish		the gods						nom wish «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His own will

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 own	nmod:poss
2	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 will	obl
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 4

Fate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fate	fate	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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