Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

dude, what did the thing they saw really turn out to be?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: they, dude · What happens: see, turn out · To what, where: thing

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 turn	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 turn	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thing	det
6	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 saw	nsubj
8	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 thing	acl:relcl
9	really	really	ADV	_	10 turn	advmod
10	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 turn	compound:prt
12	to	to	PART	_	13 be	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 turn	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 turn	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	they	the thing not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
2	turn out	past · do-support	dude						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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

a broken wooden mast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 mast	det
2	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mast	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mast	amod
4	mast	mast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	participle							vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 2

a large faggot of sticks washed up by the sea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 faggot	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faggot	amod
3	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sticks	case
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 faggot	nmod
6	washed	wash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 sticks	acl
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 washed	compound:prt
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 sea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sea	det
10	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 washed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash up	participle		sticks not said here				by the sea	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

a heap of driftwood tied tightly with ropes and sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 heap	det
2	heap	heap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 driftwood	case
4	driftwood	driftwood	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 heap	nmod
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 heap	acl
6	tightly	tightly	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 ropes	case
8	ropes	rope	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tied	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 sticks	cc
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 ropes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie	participle		a heap of driftwood not said here				with ropes and sticks; tightly property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient with rope=Co-Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

a large faggot of sticks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 faggot	det
2	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 faggot	amod
3	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 sticks	case
5	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 faggot	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.

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