Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…
Which bloke was proper raging about his salt going missing?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bloke, salt · What happens: rage, go
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 2 bloke | det |
| 2 | bloke | bloke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 raging | aux |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 raging | advmod |
| 5 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 salt | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 salt | nmod:poss |
| 8 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 raging | obl |
| 9 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 salt | acl |
| 10 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 going | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 raging | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | past · progressive | which bloke | about bloke's salt; properly property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about salt=Location | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | bloke's salt not said here | missing property | 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
The Merchant, totally raging
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Merchant | det |
| 2 | Merchant | Merchant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 raging | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Merchant | punct |
| 4 | totally | totally | ADV | _ | 5 raging | advmod |
| 5 | raging | rage | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rage | gerund | the Merchant | totally property | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
The Lion, who was not best pleased about the missing salt at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pleased | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 pleased | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pleased | cop |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 7 | best | well | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 pleased | advmod |
| 8 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | about | about | ADP | _ | 12 salt | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 salt | det |
| 11 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 salt | amod |
| 12 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pleased | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 all | case |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 salt | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | the Lion | about the missing salt at all; pleased, well property | tree rules |
Option 3
The Fox, grumpy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grumpy | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | grumpy | grumpy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The Cock, sulking
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sulking | punct |
| 4 | sulking | sulk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Cock | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sulk | gerund | the Cock not said here | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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