Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…
wait, which two dudes found the axe?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, two dudes · What happens: wait, find · To what, where: axe
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
| 3 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 found | obj |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 dudes | nummod |
| 5 | dudes | dude | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 wait | parataxis |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 axe | det |
| 8 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 found | obj |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | find | past | two dudes | the axe | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent which=Theme axe=Attribute |
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
two boys by the river
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 boys | nummod |
| 2 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 river | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 river | det |
| 5 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 boys | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
two farmers on the road
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 farmers | nummod |
| 2 | farmers | farmer | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 road | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 road | det |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 farmers | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
two old men walking together and carrying heavy sacks
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 men | nummod |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 men | amod |
| 3 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 4 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 men | acl |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 walking | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | cc |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 walking | conj |
| 8 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sacks | amod |
| 9 | sacks | sack | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carrying | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | two old men not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | two old men not said here | heavy sacks | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sack=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
two men walking together
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 men | nummod |
| 2 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | walking | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 men | acl |
| 4 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 walking | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | two men not said here | together property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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