Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Did the Tortoise stop for a nap at any point?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: stop · To what, where: point

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Tortoise	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tortoise	det
3	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 stop	nsubj
4	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 nap	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 nap	det
7	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 point	case
9	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	10 point	det
10	point	point	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stop	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	the Tortoise			any point		for a nap	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at point=Location

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

Yes, he rested by a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 rested	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rested	nsubj
4	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 tree	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 tree	det
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rested	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	past	he					by a tree	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent by tree=Location

Option 2

No, he slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 slept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 slept	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 slept	nsubj
4	slept	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	past	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, he never stopped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 stopped	advmod
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Yes, he stopped twice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stopped	nsubj
4	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 stopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he					twice property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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