Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs…
the Mule was a full-blooded racer, fr fr?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mule · What happens: be · To what, where: blooded racer
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 370 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs off, the Cock wins, and more beast tales follow» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Mule | det |
| 2 | Mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 racer | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 racer | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 racer | det |
| 5 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 blooded | amod |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 full | punct |
| 7 | blooded | blooded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 racer | amod |
| 8 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fr | punct |
| 10 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fr | compound |
| 11 | fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 racer | conj |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 racer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the Mule | a blooded racer and fr fr | tree rules |
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
nah, his dad was an Ass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 Ass | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Ass | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 Ass | cop |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Ass | det |
| 7 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | his dad | a Ass | tree rules |
Option 2
yep, his dad was a racer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yep | yep | INTJ | _ | 7 racer | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yep | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 racer | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 racer | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 racer | det |
| 7 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | his dad | a racer | tree rules |
Option 3
nah, his father was a donkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 7 donkey | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 father | nmod:poss |
| 4 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 donkey | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 donkey | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 donkey | det |
| 7 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | his father | a donkey | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, his dad was just an Ass and he lied about being a racer
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 8 Ass | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 dad | nmod:poss |
| 4 | dad | dad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ass | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Ass | cop |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 Ass | advmod |
| 7 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 8 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lied | cc |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 lied | nsubj |
| 11 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Ass | conj |
| 12 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 racer | case |
| 13 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 racer | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 racer | det |
| 15 | racer | racer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | his dad | a Ass | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | he | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | gerund | about a racer | tree rules |
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