Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs…
the Fox was stuck in a well, how did he get out?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: be, get out · To what, where: well
This is test 7 · ★ 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stuck | cop |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stuck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 get | punct |
| 9 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 get | advmod |
| 10 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 get | aux |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 get | nsubj |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 stuck | conj |
| 13 | out | out | ADV | _ | 12 get | advmod |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 stuck | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Fox | a well | stuck property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | get out | past · do-support | Fox | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer
he jumped off the Goat's horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 horns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goat | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horns | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Goat | case |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | he | the Goat's horns | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme horn=Trajectory |
Option 2
he jumped off the Goat's back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 jumped | nsubj |
| 2 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goat | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Goat | case |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | jump off | past | he | the Goat's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme back=Trajectory |
Option 3
he climbed out
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 climbed | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb out | past | he | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
he hopped on the Goat's horns
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 hopped | nsubj |
| 2 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 horns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goat | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horns | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Goat | case |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 hopped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | he | the Goat's horns | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on horn=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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