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Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Farmer set the fox's tail on fire, sick! Where'd the fox run?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Farmer · What happens: set · To what, where: tail, fire

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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

Sentence 1: Farmer set the fox's tail on fire, sick!

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tail	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 fox	case
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 fire	case
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 sick	punct
10	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 set	parataxis
11	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	Farmer	the fox's tail		fire			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme on fire=Destination

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.

Sentence 2: Where'd the fox run?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	1 Where	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 run	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 run	compound
5	run	run	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Where	nsubj
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Where	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

into the farmer's wheat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	5 wheat	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wheat	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

into the farmer's wheat fields where the harvest was stored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	into	into	ADP	_	6 fields	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fields	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fields	compound
6	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stored	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	11 stored	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 harvest	det
9	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stored	nsubj:pass
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stored	aux:pass
11	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	past · passive		the harvest		the farmer's wheat fields			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

across the village green

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	across	across	ADP	_	3 village	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 village	det
3	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 village	amod

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

Option 4

straight into the farmer's wheat and set the whole field alight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 set	advmod
2	into	into	ADP	_	6 wheat	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wheat	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 farmer	case
6	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 straight	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 set	cc
8	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 field	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 field	amod
11	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 set	obj
12	alight	alight	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 set	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past		the whole field				alight, straight property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient field=Result

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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