Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Was the Hare's sleep a mistake, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: sleep

This is test 14 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sleep	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sleep	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Hare	case
5	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mistake	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 mistake	det
7	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 mistake	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 mistake	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Hare's sleep					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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 · ← Mova's choice

No, he was right to rest, because he could still win the race later on

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 right	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 right	cop
5	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 rest	mark
7	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 win	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 win	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 win	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 win	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 win	advmod
13	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 right	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 race	det
15	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 win	obj
16	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	13 win	advmod
17	on	on	ADP	_	13 win	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			right property	tree rules
2	rest	to-infinitive	he not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	win	could	he	the race	still	late property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

Option 2

Yes, it was his fault

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	6 fault	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fault	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 fault	cop
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 fault	nmod:poss
6	fault	fault	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	his fault					tree rules

Option 3

Yes, it cost him the race he had been sure he would win easily

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
4	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sure	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sure	aux
10	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	11 sure	cop
11	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cost	parataxis
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 win	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 win	aux
14	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 sure	ccomp
15	easily	easily	ADV	_	14 win	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	cost	past	it	the race	him = he		vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary race=Value
2	is	past · perfect	he			sure property	tree rules
3	win	would	he			easily property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yes, it cost him the race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 cost	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	nsubj
4	cost	cost	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cost	iobj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 race	det
7	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 cost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cost	past	it	the race	him = he				vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme he=Beneficiary race=Value

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/384-pg21-part5/t14/