Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Who won the race, like, straight up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · What happens: win, straight up · To what, where: race

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 won	nsubj
2	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 race	det
4	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 won	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 straight	punct
6	like	like	INTJ	_	8 straight	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 like	punct
8	straight	straight	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 won	conj
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 straight	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past		the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality
2	straight up	infinitive							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

the Hare, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hare	appos

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

Option 2

the Snail, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Snail	det
2	Snail	snail	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Snail	conj

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

Option 3

the Tortoise, mate, cos the hare kipped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tortoise	conj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hare	punct
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 hare	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hare	det
8	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tortoise	conj
9	kipped	kip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Tortoise	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	participle		the Tortoise and mate and the hare not said here					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Tortoise, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Tortoise	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Tortoise	conj

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

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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