Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Who picked the course and the finish line, like the ref?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: pick · To what, where: course

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 picked	nsubj
2	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 course	det
4	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 line	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 line	det
7	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 line	compound
8	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 course	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 ref	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	12 ref	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 ref	det
12	ref	ref	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 picked	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 picked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past		the course and the finish line				like the ref	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=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

the old Owl who lives in the high tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Owl	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Owl	amod
3	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 lives	nsubj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lives	nsubj
5	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	9 tree	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
8	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 tree	amod
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lives	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	present	the old Owl			the high tree			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location

Option 2

the Mole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Mole	det
2	Mole	mole	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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

the Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

the Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	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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