Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Oi, so who starts the mockin' of the Tortoise, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: start · To what, where: mockin

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 starts	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	5 starts	advmod
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 starts	nsubj
5	starts	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Oi	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mockin	det
7	mockin	mockin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 starts	obj
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 mockin	punct
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Tortoise	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Tortoise	det
11	Tortoise	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mockin	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 yeah	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 starts	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	present	Oi	the mockin of the Tortoise					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mockin=Eventuality

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 and then the Fox joins in too

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	7 joins	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 Fox	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 Fox	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Hare	conj
7	joins	join	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	7 joins	compound:prt
9	too	too	ADV	_	7 joins	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	join in	present	the Hare and the Fox						vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Hare

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

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the other animals who lived near the wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 animals	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 animals	amod
3	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lived	nsubj
5	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 animals	acl:relcl
6	near	near	ADP	_	8 wood	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wood	det
8	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the other animals			the wood			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near wood=Location

Option 4

the Squirrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Squirrel	det
2	Squirrel	squirrel	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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