Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Lion and bear fought over the kid, then the fox nicked it. What did they say?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion, fox · What happens: fight, nick, say · To what, where: kid · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 13 · ★ 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: Lion and bear fought over the kid, then the fox nicked it.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 bear | cc |
| 3 | bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Lion | conj |
| 4 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 7 kid | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 kid | det |
| 7 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fought | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 nicked | punct |
| 9 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 12 nicked | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fox | det |
| 11 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 nicked | nsubj |
| 12 | nicked | nick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fought | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 nicked | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fought | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | Lion and bear | over the kid | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.theme NP S_ING»: agent=Agent over kid=Theme | ||||
| 2 | nick | past | the fox | kid | then | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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 did they say?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 say | obj |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 say | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur 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 | past · do-support | Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic |
The options
Option 1
we fought for the fox's prize
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 prize | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prize | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 fox | case |
| 7 | prize | prize | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | we | for the fox's prize | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
we fought for a fox's gain
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 gain | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fox | det |
| 5 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gain | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 fox | case |
| 7 | gain | gain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | we | for a fox's gain | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
we lost to a sly fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 lost | nsubj |
| 2 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 fox | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 5 | sly | sly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fox | amod |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lost | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | we | to a sly fox | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
we fought for the kid and a fox came and took it all
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 fought | nsubj |
| 2 | fought | fight | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 kid | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 kid | det |
| 5 | kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fought | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 came | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 came | nsubj |
| 9 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 took | cc |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fought | conj |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | obj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 it | det |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fight | past | we | for the kid | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a fox | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | take | past | we not said here | fox | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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