Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

why did the Crab leave the sand, ngl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Crab · What happens: leave · To what, where: sand

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 leave	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crab	det
4	Crab	Crab	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 leave	nsubj
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sand	det
7	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 leave	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ngl	punct
9	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sand	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 leave	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	the Crab	the sand and ngl					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sand=Theme

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

for better food than the briny sea offered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 food	case
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	7 sea	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sea	det
6	briny	briny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 sea	amod
7	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	nmod
8	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 sea	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	participle		the briny sea not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent

Option 2

for better food in the green meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 food	case
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	7 meadow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 meadow	det
6	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 meadow	amod
7	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 food	nmod

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

Option 3

for a warm nap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	4 nap	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nap	det
3	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 nap	amod
4	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

for better food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	3 food	case
2	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	3 food	amod
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	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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