Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…
Gutted for the Hare, he woke up too late, yeah? What did he see?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hare · What happens: gut, wake up, see
This is test 8 · ★ 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
Sentence 1: Gutted for the Hare, he woke up too late, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 woke | advcl |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 Hare | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Hare | det |
| 4 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Gutted | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Gutted | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 woke | nsubj |
| 7 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 woke | compound:prt |
| 9 | too | too | ADV | _ | 10 late | advmod |
| 10 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 woke | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 woke | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 woke | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 woke | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gut | participle | Hare not said here | for the Hare | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wake up | past | Hare | late property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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.
Sentence 2: What did he see?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 see | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 see | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 see | nsubj |
| 4 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 see | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past · do-support | Hare | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
a river at the far end
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 river | det |
| 2 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 end | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 end | det |
| 5 | far | far | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 end | amod |
| 6 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 river | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the Tortoise at the start
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 |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 start | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 start | det |
| 5 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tortoise | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the Tortoise at the goal
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 |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 goal | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 goal | det |
| 5 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Tortoise | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
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.
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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