Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…
The Eagle was on about getting hitched. What did the Kite promise he could carry?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Eagle · What happens: be, do, carry · To what, where: Eagle, Kite promise
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 375 «Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag borrows wheat on the Wolf's word» 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
Sentence 1: The Eagle was on about getting hitched.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hitched | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 hitched | cop |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 7 hitched | mark |
| 5 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 7 hitched | mark |
| 6 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hitched | aux:pass |
| 7 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hitched | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · passive | the Eagle | hitch 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.
Sentence 2: What did the Kite promise he could carry?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 did | nsubj |
| 2 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 promise | det |
| 4 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 promise | compound |
| 5 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 did | obj |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 carry | nsubj |
| 7 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 carry | aux |
| 8 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 promise | acl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Kite promise | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | carry | could | Eagle | the Kite promise not said here | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent promise=Theme |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a Pigeon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Pigeon | det |
| 2 | Pigeon | Pigeon | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
an Ostrich
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Ostrich | det |
| 2 | Ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a sack of grain and his own nest
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sack | det |
| 2 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 grain | case |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sack | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 nest | cc |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nest | amod |
| 8 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sack | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
a Donkey
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Donkey | det |
| 2 | Donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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