Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

lol, who did Jupiter sell the ass to last?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: sell, last · To what, where: ass

This is test 14 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 sell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 sell	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sell	aux
5	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 sell	nsubj
6	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ass	det
8	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sell	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 last	mark
10	last	last	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ass	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past · do-support		the ass					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme
2	last	to-infinitive		the ass not said here					vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: 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 butcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 butcher	det
2	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

a king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 king	det
2	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

a tanner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tanner	det
2	tanner	tanner	NOUN	Number=Sing	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.

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