Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…
Wait, what did the Fox want to chew through?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Fox · What happens: wait, do, want, chew
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 want | nsubj |
| 7 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 chew | mark |
| 9 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 want | xcomp |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 chew | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | want | present | the Fox | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | chew not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Fox not said here | vn chew-39.2 «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
the thick rope tied to the gate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 rope | det |
| 2 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 rope | amod |
| 3 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 rope | acl |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 gate | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 gate | det |
| 7 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | the thick rope not said here | to the gate | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to gate=Co-Patient |
Option 2
a long piece of twine tied to the basket
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 piece | det |
| 2 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 piece | amod |
| 3 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 twine | case |
| 5 | twine | twine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 piece | nmod |
| 6 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 piece | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 basket | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 basket | det |
| 9 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tied | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tie | participle | a long piece of twine not said here | to the basket | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to basket=Co-Patient |
Option 3
a bag
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 bag | det |
| 2 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
a string
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 string | det |
| 2 | string | string | 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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