Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…
bro, which beast hit the dying lion first?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: hit, die · To what, where: dying lion
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 beast | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 beast | det |
| 4 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | appos |
| 5 | hit | hit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lion | det |
| 7 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 lion | amod |
| 8 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hit | obj |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 hit | advmod |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 hit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hit | past | bro | the dying lion | first property | vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lion=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=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
ox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ox | ox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
a boar
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 boar | det |
| 2 | boar | boar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
hare
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
the old Hound
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hound | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Hound | amod |
| 3 | Hound | hound | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/392-pg21-part13/t7/