Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…
Where did the Lark build her gaff, in the wheat field?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Lark · What happens: be, build · To what, where: gaff, wheat field
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 5 build | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Where | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lark | det |
| 4 | Lark | Lark | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 build | nsubj |
| 5 | build | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 gaff | nmod:poss |
| 7 | gaff | gaff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 field | punct |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 field | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 field | det |
| 11 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 field | compound |
| 12 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 build | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 build | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | where property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | build | present | the Lark | Lark's gaff | the wheat field | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gaff=Product |
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
yeah, in a field of wheat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 field | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 field | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wheat | case |
| 7 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 field | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, in the orchard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 orchard | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 orchard | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 orchard | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 orchard | det |
| 5 | orchard | orchard | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, in a field of wheat near the farm, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 field | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 field | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 field | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 field | det |
| 5 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 wheat | case |
| 7 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 field | nmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 10 farm | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 farm | det |
| 10 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wheat | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 innit | punct |
| 12 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 field | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, by the old river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 river | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 river | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 river | amod |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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