Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Proper cheeky, the Hare just kipped by the road, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hare · What happens: kip

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 cheeky	advmod
2	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kipped	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hare	det
5	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 kipped	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 kipped	advmod
7	kipped	kip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cheeky	conj
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 road	det
10	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 kipped	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 kipped	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	2 cheeky	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 cheeky	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kip	past	the Hare					by the road	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

napped

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	napped	nap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	participle							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

slept

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	slept	sleep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sleep	participle							vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

lay down to rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	down	down	ADV	_	1 lay	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rest	mark
4	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 lay	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay down	imperative	you not said here					down property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	rest	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

fell fast asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 fell	advmod
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past						asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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