Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…
so the Cock sounded calm, right?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cock · What happens: sound
This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 369 «Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox begs a wary Cock to come down with false news of peace» 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 sounded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cock | det |
| 3 | Cock | Cock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 calm | punct |
| 7 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 4 sounded | discourse |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 sounded | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | the Cock | calm property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=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
No, he was shaking hard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 shaking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shaking | aux |
| 5 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 shaking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past · progressive | he | hard property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Yes, he sounded relaxed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 sounded | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sounded | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | relaxed | relaxed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sounded | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sound | past | he | relaxed property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he acted super calm
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 acted | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 acted | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 acted | nsubj |
| 4 | acted | act | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | super | super | ADV | _ | 4 acted | advmod |
| 6 | calm | calm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 acted | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | act | past | he | calm, super property | vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
Nah, he sounded really scared and his voice was shaking badly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 6 scared | advmod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 shaking | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 voice | nmod:poss |
| 9 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 shaking | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 shaking | aux |
| 11 | shaking | shake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 scared | conj |
| 12 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 shaking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | shake | past · progressive | his voice | badly property | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |
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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