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

Peasant set the eagle free, and the eagle nicked his bundle. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Peasant, eagle · What happens: set, nick · To what, where: eagle, bundle

This is test 15 · ★ 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: Peasant set the eagle free, and the eagle nicked his bundle.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	nsubj
2	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eagle	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 set	obj
5	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 set	xcomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nicked	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 nicked	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eagle	det
9	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nicked	nsubj
10	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 set	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 bundle	nmod:poss
12	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 nicked	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 set	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past	Peasant	the eagle				free property	vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient eagle=Result
2	nick	past	the eagle	eagle's bundle					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=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: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

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

the wall fell down after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wall	det
2	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 fell	advmod
5	after	after	ADP	_	3 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall down	past	the wall					down property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the rope broke then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 rope	det
2	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 broke	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	break	past	the rope				then		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

the eagle flew

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	the eagle						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the house burned down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 house	det
2	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burned	nsubj
3	burned	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 burned	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burn down	past	the house						vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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