Test 7 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…
wait, which dog ate an oyster by accident?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, dog · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: oyster
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 ate | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | nsubj |
| 5 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 oyster | det |
| 7 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | obj |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 accident | case |
| 9 | accident | accident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ate | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past | which dog | a oyster | by accident | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oyster=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the egg-loving one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 one | det |
| 2 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 loving | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 egg | punct |
| 4 | loving | loving | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 one | amod |
| 5 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the oyster one
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 one | det |
| 2 | oyster | oyster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 one | compound |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the one that loves eggs and bread
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 loves | nsubj |
| 4 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 one | acl:relcl |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 loves | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bread | cc |
| 7 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the one | eggs and bread | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the dog that really loves eating eggs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 loves | obj |
| 4 | really | really | ADV | _ | 5 loves | advmod |
| 5 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 dog | acl:relcl |
| 6 | eating | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 loves | xcomp |
| 7 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 eating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | love | present | the dog | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat not said to happen | gerund | eggs | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=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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