Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare…

Wagwan, what did the Tortoise say he'd do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wagwan, Tortoise · What happens: do, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wagwan	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tortoise	det
6	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 do	nsubj
9	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 do	aux
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 say	ccomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Wagwan	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	say speech: assert	present	the Tortoise	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	would	Tortoise	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

outrun the Owl

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	outrun	outrun	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Owl	det
3	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 outrun	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	outrun	imperative	you not said here	the Owl					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

beat the Hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hare	det
3	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	imperative	you not said here	the Hare					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hare=Theme

Option 3

race the Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	race	race	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 race	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	race	imperative	you not said here	the Fox					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Agent

Option 4

win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	win	win	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	imperative	you not said here						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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