Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…
Why was the miser so gutted?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: miser · What happens: be, gut · To what, where: miser
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Rel | root | root |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Why | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 miser | det |
| 4 | miser | miser | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Why | nsubj |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 gutted | advmod |
| 6 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 miser | acl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Why | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the miser | why property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | gut | participle | the miser not said here | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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 · ✓ the right answer
His gold got nicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nicked | aux:pass |
| 4 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · passive | His gold | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
Option 2
He lost it
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | He | it | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality |
Option 3
His coins got stolen
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 coins | nmod:poss |
| 2 | coins | coin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | aux:pass |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | past · passive | His coins | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | coin | His = he | nom coin «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
His gold got nicked out of the ground while he was at the pub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 gold | nmod:poss |
| 2 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 nicked | aux:pass |
| 4 | nicked | nick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 ground | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ground | det |
| 8 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | obl |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 pub | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 pub | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 pub | cop |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 pub | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 pub | det |
| 14 | pub | pub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 nicked | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nick | past · passive | His gold | the ground | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme out ground=Source | ||||
| 2 | is | past | he | the pub | tree rules |
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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