Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…
lowkey, what's the moral of the axe tale?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: moral
This is test 6 · ★ 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 moral | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 6 moral | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 moral | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 moral | det |
| 6 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 tale | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 9 | axe | axe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 tale | compound |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 moral | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 moral | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lowkey | the moral | of the axe tale | 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
He who shares the danger should share the prize.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shares | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 shares | nsubj |
| 3 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 danger | det |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | nsubj |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 share | aux |
| 7 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shares | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 prize | det |
| 9 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 share | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | should | the danger | the prize | tree rules |
Option 2
Greed brings ruin.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Greed | greed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | nsubj |
| 2 | brings | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | ruin | ruin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brings | obj |
| 4 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brings | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | present | Greed | ruin | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme |
Option 3
He who shares risk should share reward.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 shares | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 shares | nsubj |
| 3 | shares | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | risk | risk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | nsubj |
| 5 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 share | aux |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 shares | xcomp |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shares | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | He | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | should | risk | reward | tree rules |
Option 4
Those who share the danger share the gain.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Those | that | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 share | nsubj |
| 2 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 3 share | nsubj |
| 3 | share | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 danger | det |
| 5 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | nsubj |
| 6 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 share | ccomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gain | det |
| 8 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 share | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 share | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | present | Those | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | share | infinitive | the danger | the gain | tree rules |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/392-pg21-part13/t6/