Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…
Who swooped down and grabbed the winning Cock?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: swoop down, grab, win · To what, where: winning Cock
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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 swooped | nsubj |
| 2 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 swooped | compound:prt |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 grabbed | cc |
| 5 | grabbed | grab | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 swooped | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cock | det |
| 7 | winning | win | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Cock | amod |
| 8 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grabbed | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 swooped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop down | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | grab | past | the winning Cock | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme | |||||
| 3 | win | gerund | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: 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
a great golden Eagle from the hills
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 Eagle | det |
| 2 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Eagle | amod |
| 3 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Eagle | amod |
| 4 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 hills | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hills | det |
| 7 | hills | hill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Eagle | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
an Eagle
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
a hungry Eagle swooping from the sky above
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 2 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Eagle | amod |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | swooping | swoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Eagle | acl |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 sky | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sky | det |
| 7 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 swooping | obl |
| 8 | above | above | ADV | _ | 4 swooping | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop | gerund | a hungry Eagle not said here | the sky | above property | tree rules |
Option 4
a Vulture
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Vulture | det |
| 2 | Vulture | vulture | 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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