Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

What's the Hare takin' the mick out of, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hare takin · What happens: be

This is test 2 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 takin	det
4	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 takin	compound
5	takin	takin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	'	'	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mick	det
8	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 mick	nmod
10	of	of	ADP	_	9 out	fixed
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 out	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 What	advmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Hare takin				then		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

the Tortoise's heavy shell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 shell	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tortoise	case
4	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shell	amod
5	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Tortoise's short feet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Tortoise	det
2	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feet	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Tortoise	case
4	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 feet	amod
5	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3

her slow walk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 walk	nmod:poss
2	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 walk	amod
3	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	walk		her = she						nom walk «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

his big ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ears	nmod:poss
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ears	amod
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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