Test 2 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…
So what was the grub at the country lunch, like?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: grub, country lunch
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 what | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 grub | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 grub | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grub | det |
| 5 | grub | grub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 lunch | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 lunch | det |
| 8 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lunch | compound |
| 9 | lunch | lunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grub | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 like | punct |
| 11 | like | like | ADP | _ | 5 grub | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 grub | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the grub | the country lunch | 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 load of wheat stalks and roots, which was well dodgy, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 load | det |
| 2 | load | load | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 stalks | case |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stalks | compound |
| 5 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 load | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 roots | cc |
| 7 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 stalks | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 dodgy | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 dodgy | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 dodgy | cop |
| 11 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 dodgy | advmod |
| 12 | dodgy | dodgy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 roots | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 mate | punct |
| 14 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stalks | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | roots | dodgy, well property | tree rules |
Option 2
Wheat stalks, roots and acorns, proper rough stuff, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stalks | compound |
| 2 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 roots | punct |
| 4 | roots | root | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stalks | conj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 acorns | cc |
| 6 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stalks | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 stuff | punct |
| 8 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 9 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 stuff | amod |
| 10 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stalks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 mate | punct |
| 12 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stuff | vocative |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Acorns and some wheat, love
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 wheat | cc |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 wheat | det |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Acorns | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 love | punct |
| 6 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Acorns | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
wheat stalks and acorns, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stalks | compound |
| 2 | stalks | stalk | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 acorns | cc |
| 4 | acorns | acorn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 stalks | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stalks | conj |
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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