Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…
Lowkey, which birds came nicking the seed?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: come, nick · To what, where: seed
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» 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 | Lowkey | Lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lowkey | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 birds | det |
| 4 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | nicking | nick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 came | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 seed | det |
| 8 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nicking | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Lowkey | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | nick | gerund | Lowkey not said here | the seed | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=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.
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Cranes and some sneaky Herons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Herons | cc |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 Herons | det |
| 4 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Herons | amod |
| 5 | Herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Cranes | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Rooks and Cranes and Herons
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rooks | rook | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Cranes | cc |
| 3 | Cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rooks | conj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Herons | cc |
| 5 | Herons | heron | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Rooks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Cranes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Geese
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/385-pg21-part6/t2/