Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…
Two blokes met a Bear. One legged it up a tree, what did the other one do?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Two blokes, One, tree · What happens: meet, leg up, do · To what, where: Bear, other one do
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Two blokes met a Bear.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 blokes | nummod |
| 2 | blokes | bloke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 met | nsubj |
| 3 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Bear | det |
| 5 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 met | obj |
| 6 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 met | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | meet | past | Two blokes | a Bear | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bear=Co-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.
Sentence 2: One legged it up a tree, what did the other one do?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | One | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 legged | nsubj |
| 2 | legged | leg | 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 legged | obj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 2 legged | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 legged | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 did | punct |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 did | nsubj |
| 9 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 tree | acl:relcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 do | det |
| 11 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 do | amod |
| 12 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | compound |
| 13 | do | do | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 did | obj |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 legged | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leg up | past | One | Bear | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past | a tree | the other one do | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent do=Eventuality |
The options
Option 1
he shouted back at the Bear
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 shouted | nsubj |
| 2 | shouted | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 shouted | advmod |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 Bear | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bear | det |
| 6 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shouted | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout back speech: express | past | he | the Bear | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
he offered the Bear some food
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 offered | nsubj |
| 2 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bear | det |
| 4 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 food | det |
| 6 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 offered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past | he | the Bear | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent bear=Goal food=Theme |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
he climbed up into the tree and hid behind the highest branch of the oak
The tree, 15 words
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 climbed | nsubj |
| 2 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | up | up | ADV | _ | 2 climbed | advmod |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 6 tree | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 climbed | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 hid | cc |
| 8 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 climbed | conj |
| 9 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 12 branch | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branch | det |
| 11 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 branch | amod |
| 12 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hid | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 oak | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 oak | det |
| 15 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 branch | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb up | past | he | the tree | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into tree=Destination | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | he not said here | the highest branch of the oak | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent behind branch=Location |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
he played dead on the ground
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 played | nsubj |
| 2 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 played | obj |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 ground | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ground | det |
| 6 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 played | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | he | dead | the ground | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dead=Theme |
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