Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…
Fr, what did the donkey actually smash?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fr · What happens: do · To what, where: donkey
This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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 | Fr | fr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | 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 donkey | det |
| 6 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | actually | actually | ADV | _ | 8 smash | advmod |
| 8 | smash | smash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obl |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Fr | the donkey | smash obl | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality |
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
the door and all the plates
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 door | det |
| 2 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 plates | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 plates | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 plates | det |
| 6 | plates | plate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 door | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the table, the chairs and all the dishes on the cloth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 chairs | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 chairs | det |
| 5 | chairs | chair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 table | conj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 dishes | cc |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 dishes | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dishes | det |
| 9 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 table | conj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 cloth | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cloth | det |
| 12 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dishes | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
the table and all the dishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 table | det |
| 2 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dishes | cc |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 dishes | det:predet |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dishes | det |
| 6 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 table | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the whole table, every plate, cup and bowl in the room
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 table | det |
| 2 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 table | amod |
| 3 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 plate | punct |
| 5 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 plate | det |
| 6 | plate | plate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 table | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cup | punct |
| 8 | cup | cup | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 table | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 bowl | cc |
| 10 | bowl | bowl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 table | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bowl | nmod |
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/387-pg21-part8/t2/