Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

so the mice boss hats got them stuck how exactly?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mice, hats · What happens: boss, get · To what, where: mice

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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	_	4 boss	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 mice	det
3	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 boss	nsubj
4	boss	boss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boss	ccomp
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 got	obj
8	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 exactly	advmod
10	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	8 stuck	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 boss	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boss	present	the mice						tree rules
2	get	past	hats	mice = mouse				stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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 right answer

their big feather hats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 hats	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hats	amod
3	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hats	compound
4	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 2

the weasel traps and holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traps	det
2	weasel	weasel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 traps	compound
3	traps	trap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 holes	cc
5	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 traps	conj

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

Option 3

their tall feathered caps

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 caps	nmod:poss
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caps	amod
3	feathered	feathered	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 caps	amod
4	caps	cap	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the hats were too tall to fit through the Weasel holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hats	det
2	hats	hat	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tall	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tall	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 tall	advmod
5	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fit	mark
7	fit	fit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tall	advcl
8	through	through	ADP	_	11 holes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 holes	det
10	Weasel	Weasel	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 holes	compound
11	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the hats					tall property	tree rules
2	fit	to-infinitive	the hats not said here			the Weasel holes			vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent through hole=Trajectory

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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