Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs…

the Mom Mouse said the Cat eats us, ngl that's scary

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mom Mouse, Cat, ngl · What happens: say, eat, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	3 Mouse	det
2	Mom	Mom	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mouse	compound
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cat	det
6	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eats	nsubj
7	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
8	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 eats	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 ngl	punct
10	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	parataxis
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 scary	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 scary	cop
13	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ngl	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Mom Mouse			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	present	the Cat	us		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient
3	is	present	ngl		scary property	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

nah, he doesn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 does	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 does	nsubj
4	does	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 does	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	present	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

yep, scary

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	3 scary	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	scary	scary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep, he eats mouse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	he	mouse					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he eats mice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 eats	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eats	nsubj
4	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 eats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	he	mice					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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