Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…
what's the Fox's big sharp feature?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big sharp feature, Fox · What happens: be, feature
This is test 8 · ★ 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 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 what | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Fox | det |
| 4 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 feature | nmod:poss |
| 5 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 4 Fox | case |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feature | amod |
| 7 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 feature | amod |
| 8 | feature | feature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 what | nsubj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the Fox's big sharp feature | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | feature | the Fox | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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
Long tail
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 tail | amod |
| 2 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
His pointed nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 nose | nmod:poss |
| 2 | pointed | pointed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 nose | amod |
| 3 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
Sharp teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 teeth | amod |
| 2 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Thick sharp claws
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 claws | amod |
| 2 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 claws | amod |
| 3 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
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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