Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…
ok so which fable is about the shadow fight?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fable · What happens: be
This is test 13 · ★ 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 | ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 9 fight | discourse |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 fight | advmod |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 fable | det |
| 4 | fable | fable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 fight | cop |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 9 fight | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 fight | det |
| 8 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | compound |
| 9 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 fight | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | which fable | about the shadow fight | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the ass and his shadow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ass | det |
| 2 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 shadow | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 5 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ass | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shadow | his = he | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 2
the ass who carried a traveler and his shadow fight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ass | det |
| 2 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 carried | nsubj |
| 4 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 traveler | det |
| 6 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 carried | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fight | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 fight | nmod:poss |
| 9 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fight | compound |
| 10 | fight | fight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 traveler | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | the ass | a traveler and ass's shadow fight | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent traveler=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fight | ass | nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 3
the traveler and the ass who quarreled
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 traveler | det |
| 2 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 quarreled | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 ass | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 ass | det |
| 5 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 traveler | conj |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 quarreled | nsubj |
| 7 | quarreled | quarrel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | quarrel | past | the traveler and the ass | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
the traveler's shadow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 traveler | det |
| 2 | traveler | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 traveler | case |
| 4 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shadow | the traveler | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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