Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Safe, what's an "assertion" when you break it down?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be, break down · To what, where: Safe assertion, assertion

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 assertion	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Safe	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 assertion	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 assertion	cop
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 assertion	det
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 assertion	punct
7	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 assertion	punct
9	when	when	SCONJ	_	11 break	mark
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 break	nsubj
11	break	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 assertion	advcl
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 break	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 break	compound:prt
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 assertion	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a in a quote	present		a Safe assertion					tree rules
2	break down	present	you	assertion					vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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

a boast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 boast	det
2	boast	boast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a claim

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 claim	det
2	claim	claim	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a fact

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fact	det
2	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

a plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 plan	det
2	plan	plan	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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