Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Yo, what was the wolf doin' by the shepherd's hut?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: wolf doin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 doin	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doin	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doin	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doin	compound
7	doin	doin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 doin	punct
9	by	by	ADP	_	13 hut	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shepherd	det
11	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hut	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 shepherd	case
13	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doin	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doin	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the wolf doin				by the shepherd's hut	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 · ← Mova's choice

Sniffin' at the bins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sniffin	Sniffin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 Sniffin	punct
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 bins	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bins	det
5	bins	bin	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sniffin	nmod

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

Option 2

Lurkin' near the sheep pen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lurkin	Lurkin	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Lurkin	case
3	near	near	ADP	_	6 pen	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pen	det
5	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 pen	compound
6	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lurkin	nmod

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

Option 3

Eyein' a sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eyein	Eyein	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	'	'	PUNCT	_	4 sheep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 sheep	det
4	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eyein	appos

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Watchin' them scoff a roast lamb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Watchin	Watchin	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 scoff	nsubj
2	'	's	PART	_	1 Watchin	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Watchin	obj
4	scoff	scoff	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 lamb	det
6	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lamb	compound
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scoff	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	infinitive	Watchin	a roast lamb					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme

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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