Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Mad, so what did the mouse call her?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mouse · What happens: call · To what, where: her · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 2 · ★ 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mad | mad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 call | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 call | advmod |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 call | obj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 call | aux |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 mouse | det |
| 7 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 call | nsubj |
| 8 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Mad | parataxis |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 call | obj |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Mad | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past · do-support | the mouse | her = she | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme she=Result |
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
"my fair friend"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 friend | amod |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 friend | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
"my dear lady"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 lady | nmod:poss |
| 3 | dear | dear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 lady | amod |
| 4 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 lady | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
"good sir"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
| 2 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sir | amod |
| 3 | sir | sir | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 sir | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
"my good madam"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 madam | nmod:poss |
| 3 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 madam | amod |
| 4 | madam | madam | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 madam | punct |
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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