Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

The Hare laughed and said the Tortoise was what, exactly?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hare, Tortoise · What happens: laugh, say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 laughed	nsubj
3	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 said	cc
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 laughed	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Tortoise	det
7	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 what	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 what	cop
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
11	exactly	exactly	ADV	_	9 what	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 laughed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Hare		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	past	the Hare not said here		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	the Tortoise	exactly property	tree rules

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

too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

late

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	late	late	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

too slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	too	too	ADV	_	2 slow	advmod
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

slow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	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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