Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…
Did the Mouse get out the basket all skinny, or what?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mouse · What happens: get out · To what, where: basket
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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 | Did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 get | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | nsubj |
| 4 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 get | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 basket | det |
| 7 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 8 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 skinny | det |
| 9 | skinny | skinny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 get | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 what | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 what | cc |
| 12 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 get | obj |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 get | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get out | past · do-support | the Mouse | the basket | out 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
Yeah, he crawled out nice and skinny, no bother at all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 crawled | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 crawled | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 crawled | nsubj |
| 4 | crawled | crawl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 crawled | compound:prt |
| 6 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 crawled | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 skinny | cc |
| 8 | skinny | skinny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 nice | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 bother | punct |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 11 bother | det |
| 11 | bother | bother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 crawled | parataxis |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 all | case |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 bother | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | crawl out | past | he | nice property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
Yeah, he slipped out fine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 slipped | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 slipped | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 slipped | nsubj |
| 4 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADV | _ | 4 slipped | advmod |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 slipped | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | slip out | past | he | fine, out property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
No, he got stuck in the basket, too fat for the gap, innit
The tree, 13 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 basket | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 basket | det |
| 8 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stuck | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fat | punct |
| 10 | too | too | ADV | _ | 11 fat | advmod |
| 11 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 gap | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 gap | det |
| 14 | gap | gap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fat | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 innit | punct |
| 16 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 gap | appos |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | stuck property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
No, he got stuck, too fat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 stuck | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 stuck | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stuck | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stuck | aux:pass |
| 5 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 fat | punct |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 fat | advmod |
| 8 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 stuck | conj |
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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