Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…
the old lady's doctor kept stealing her stuff, did she just let him?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: doctor · What happens: keep, steal, let · To what, where: stuff, him
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 doctor | nmod:poss |
| 4 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 3 lady | case |
| 5 | doctor | doctor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | stealing | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 stuff | nmod:poss |
| 9 | stuff | stuff | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stealing | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 let | aux |
| 12 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | nsubj |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 14 let | advmod |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 kept | advcl |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the old lady's doctor | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | steal | gerund | the old lady's doctor not said here | doctor's stuff | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stuff=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let | past · do-support | doctor | him = he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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
nah, she dragged him to court and made him pay back everything
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dragged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 court | case |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dragged | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 made | xcomp |
| 12 | back | back | ADV | _ | 11 pay | advmod |
| 13 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 11 pay | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | she | him = he | court | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to court=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | she not said here | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | pay back | infinitive | him = he not said here | everything | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Asset |
Option 2
yeah she kept quiet but then went to the king and cried
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 kept | discourse |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | quiet | quiet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 kept | xcomp |
| 5 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 went | cc |
| 6 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 went | advmod |
| 7 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 king | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 king | det |
| 10 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 went | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 cried | cc |
| 12 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 kept | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | she | quiet property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | go | past | she not said here | then | to the king | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to king=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | cry speech: express | past | she not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
nah, she dragged him to court
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 dragged | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | nsubj |
| 4 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 dragged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 court | mark |
| 7 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dragged | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past | she | him = he | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
Option 4
yeah she hired a new lawyer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 hired | discourse |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lawyer | det |
| 5 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lawyer | amod |
| 6 | lawyer | lawyer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | she | a new lawyer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lawyer=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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