Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…
Who got the rough end of the deal with the sponges, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: get · To what, where: rough end
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 got | nsubj |
| 2 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 end | det |
| 4 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 end | amod |
| 5 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 got | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 deal | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 deal | det |
| 8 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 end | nmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sponges | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sponges | det |
| 11 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 deal | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 got | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 got | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the rough end of the deal with the sponges | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer end=Stimulus |
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 Merchant's wife, who had to pay for all the salt and sponges he lost
The tree, 16 words
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 | 4 wife | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Merchant | case |
| 4 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 had | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 pay | mark |
| 9 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 had | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 salt | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 salt | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 salt | det |
| 13 | salt | salt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pay | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 sponges | cc |
| 15 | sponges | sponge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 salt | conj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 salt | acl:relcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the Merchant's wife | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | the Merchant's wife not said here | for all salt and sponges | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent for salt=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | he | all salt and sponges not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salt=Eventuality |
Option 2
The Fox, bless him
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 bless | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 4 | bless | bless | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bless | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bless | infinitive | the Fox | him = he | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
The Lion, mate
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 | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mate | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lion | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
The Ass, poor thing
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 thing | punct |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 thing | amod |
| 5 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Ass | 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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