Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

be honest, where were the shepherds eating?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, shepherds · What happens: be, eat

This is test 9 · ★ 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 honest	cop
2	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 eating	punct
4	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 eating	advmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 eating	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 shepherds	det
7	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	nsubj
8	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 honest	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 honest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					honest property	tree rules
2	eat	past · progressive	the shepherds						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	out	out	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	inside	inside	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 3

by a fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	by	by	ADP	_	3 fire	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fire	det
3	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

in a hut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	in	in	ADP	_	3 hut	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 hut	det
3	hut	hut	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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