Test 7 · ★ · Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the h…

wait, what did the hyaenas throw at the lion skin?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hyaenas · What happens: wait, do, throw · To what, where: lion skin

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 1670 «Old Calabash, The Little Hare and Big Lion, part 59: the hare tricks the lion, then the hyaenas» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	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 wait	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hyaenas	det
6	hyaenas	hyaena	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 throw	nsubj
7	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	11 skin	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 skin	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 skin	compound
11	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 throw	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past			tree rules
3	throw	present	the hyaenas	the lion skin	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at skin=Destination

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

Ash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ash	ash	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A bone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

A stone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

Dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dirt	dirt	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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