Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

fr, what did the first guy say when the owner was chasing them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr, owner · What happens: do, say, chase · To what, where: first guy, them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 fr	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 guy	det
6	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 guy	amod
7	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 chasing	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 owner	det
11	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chasing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chasing	aux
13	chasing	chase	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 say	ccomp
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 chasing	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	fr	the first guy	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guy=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	fr		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	chase	past · progressive	the owner	them = they	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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

"Hide!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hide	punct
2	Hide	hide	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 Hide	punct
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Hide	punct

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"We are undone."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 undone	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 undone	aux:pass
4	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo in a quote	present · passive		We					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

"We are lost."

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 lost	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 lost	aux:pass
4	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose in a quote	present · passive		We					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

Option 4

"We are undone, the master is coming for us!"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct
2	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 undone	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 undone	aux:pass
4	undone	undo	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 coming	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 master	det
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 coming	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 coming	aux
9	coming	come	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 undone	conj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 us	case
11	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 coming	obl
12	!	!	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 undone	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	undo in a quote	present · passive		We					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	come in a quote	present · progressive	the master					for us	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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