Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…
Mad, what did the Horse end up pulling when he was old?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Horse · What happens: do, end up, pull, be
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Mad | parataxis |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Horse | det |
| 6 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 end | nsubj |
| 7 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 end | compound:prt |
| 9 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 end | xcomp |
| 10 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 13 old | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 old | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 old | cop |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 pulling | advcl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | end up | present | the Horse | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | the Horse not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | is | past | Horse | old property | tree rules |
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 cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 cart | det |
| 2 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A dung-cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 cart | det |
| 2 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 cart | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 dung | punct |
| 4 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A heavy wagon filled with the farm's rotting manure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wagon | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 wagon | amod |
| 3 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 wagon | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 manure | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farm | det |
| 7 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 manure | nmod:poss |
| 8 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 7 farm | case |
| 9 | rotting | rotting | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 manure | amod |
| 10 | manure | manure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 filled | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | participle | a heavy wagon not said here | with the farm's rotting manure | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with manure=Instrument |
Option 4
A stone cart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 cart | det |
| 2 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 cart | compound |
| 3 | cart | cart | 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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