Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

What's the big lesson, like the moral, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big lesson

This is test 7 · ★ 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	5 lesson	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 lesson	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lesson	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lesson	amod
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 moral	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	9 moral	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 moral	det
9	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lesson	appos
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 mate	punct
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moral	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lesson	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the big lesson					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

Pride comes before a fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 fall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Pride			a fall			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

Option 2

Speed wins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Speed	speed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wins	compound
2	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Slow but steady wins the race

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wins	nsubj
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 steady	cc
3	steady	steady	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Slow	conj
4	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 race	det
6	race	race	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wins	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	Slow	the race					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent race=Eventuality

Option 4

Be quick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Be	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «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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