Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Lush, who got to the finish first in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lush · What happens: get · To what, where: end

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Lush	Lush	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 finish	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 finish	det
7	finish	finish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
8	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 got	advmod
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 got	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	Lush				in the end	to the finish result; first property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to finish=Result

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 Squirrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Tortoise

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	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the Tortoise, who never stopped once along the whole long road to the goal

The tree, 14 words

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	6 stopped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 stopped	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 stopped	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 stopped	advmod
6	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 stopped	advmod
8	along	along	ADP	_	12 road	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 road	amod
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stopped	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 goal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 goal	det
15	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 road	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stop	past	the Tortoise					along the whole long road to the goal; once property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

the Hare, who woke up and ran as fast as he could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 woke	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 woke	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 ran	cc
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 fast	advmod
10	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ran	advmod
11	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 could	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 could	nsubj
13	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 fast	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	past	the Hare						vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	run	past	the Hare not said here					fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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