Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…

Yo, what colour did the Raven reckon he'd go after all that swimming?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colour · What happens: do, reckon, go · To what, where: Raven

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 366 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a sly Fox plots to trap his foolish Ass friend in a pit for a hungry Lion» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	4 colour	det
4	colour	colour	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Raven	det
7	Raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 did	xcomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 go	nsubj
10	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 go	aux
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 reckon	ccomp
12	after	after	ADP	_	15 swimming	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 swimming	det:predet
14	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 swimming	det
15	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	do	past	what colour	the Raven		tree rules
2	reckon	infinitive	what colour not said here			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	go	would	colour		after all swimming	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

Snow white, like the Swan, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 white	obl
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Swan	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 Swan	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Swan	det
6	Swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 white	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fam	punct
8	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 Swan	conj

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

Option 2

Golden yellow, like the sunshine on the lake, after all that swimming, fam, innit

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 yellow	amod
2	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sunshine	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 sunshine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sunshine	det
6	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 yellow	conj
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 lake	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lake	det
9	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sunshine	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 swimming	punct
11	after	after	ADP	_	14 swimming	case
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 swimming	det:predet
13	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 swimming	det
14	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sunshine	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fam	punct
16	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 swimming	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 innit	punct
18	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sunshine	conj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Black as coal, like the crow he was, mate, not white like the swan at all

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Black	black	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	as	as	ADP	_	3 coal	case
3	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Black	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 crow	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 crow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 crow	det
7	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Black	obl
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 was	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 crow	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 crow	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 white	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 white	advmod
14	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 crow	conj
15	like	like	ADP	_	17 swan	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swan	det
17	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 white	obl
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 white	obl

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

Option 4

Pure white like a swan, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 white	amod
2	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 swan	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 swan	det
5	swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 white	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 white	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 white	discourse

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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