Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Traveller nearly fell down a well when Fortune woke him. What'd she say?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Traveller, Fortune · What happens: fall down, wake, say · To what, where: Traveller · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 11 · ★ 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: Traveller nearly fell down a well when Fortune woke him.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Traveller | Traveller | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 3 fell | advmod |
| 3 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADP | _ | 3 fell | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 well | det |
| 6 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 fell | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 woke | advmod |
| 8 | Fortune | Fortune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 woke | nsubj |
| 9 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fell | advcl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 woke | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fell | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall down | past | Traveller | nearly, well property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | wake | past | Fortune | Traveller | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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: What'd she say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 say | nsubj |
| 4 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 say | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | would | Fortune | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
wake up, or I get blamed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 wake | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 blamed | punct |
| 4 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 7 blamed | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 blamed | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | get | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 blamed | aux:pass |
| 7 | blamed | blame | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 wake | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | imperative | you not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | blame | present · passive | I | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 2
wake up, friend, please
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 wake | compound:prt |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 wake | vocative |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 wake | punct |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 1 wake | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | imperative | you not said here | friend vocative | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
Option 3
go away, I am tired
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | away | away | ADV | _ | 1 go | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tired | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 tired | nsubj |
| 5 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tired | cop |
| 6 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 go | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go away | imperative | you not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | tired property | tree rules |
Option 4
wake up now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 wake | compound:prt |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 1 wake | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | imperative | you not said here | now | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
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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