Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Bare dumb move, but why did the Hare nap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: do · To what, where: Hare nap

This is test 10 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	amod
2	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 move	amod
3	move	move	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 did	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 did	cc
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 did	advmod
7	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 move	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nap	det
9	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 nap	compound
10	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 did	obj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 move	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Hare nap					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nap=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

He thought he was miles ahead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 miles	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 miles	cop
5	miles	mile	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 thought	ccomp
6	ahead	ahead	ADV	_	5 miles	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	he	miles				ahead property	tree rules

Option 2

He was tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					tired property	tree rules

Option 3

He wanted a rest because he had run too fast at the very start and felt tired

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	8 run	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 run	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 run	aux
8	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wanted	xcomp
9	too	too	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 run	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	14 start	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 start	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 start	advmod
14	start	start	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 run	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 felt	cc
16	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 wanted	conj
17	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 felt	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	want	past	He	a rest			tree rules
2	run not said to happen	past · perfect	he		the start	fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at start=Trajectory
3	feel	past	He not said here			tired property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

He thought the race was already won and he could rest for a long while without any worry at all

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thought	nsubj
2	thought	think	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	7 won	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 won	aux:pass
6	already	already	ADV	_	7 won	advmod
7	won	win	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 thought	ccomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rest	cc
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 rest	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rest	aux
11	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 thought	conj
12	for	for	ADP	_	15 while	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 while	det
14	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 while	amod
15	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	obl
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 worry	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 worry	det
18	worry	worry	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rest	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 all	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 rest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	He					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	win	past · passive		the race				vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
3	rest	could	race		all	while	without any worry	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at all=Location

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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