Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…
Mouse nipped back to his hole, dead safe. Where'd he go?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mouse · What happens: nip back, go · To what, where: hole
This is test 5 · ★ 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: Mouse nipped back to his hole, dead safe.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nipped | nsubj |
| 2 | nipped | nip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | back | back | ADV | _ | 2 nipped | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 hole | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 hole | nmod:poss |
| 6 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nipped | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 safe | punct |
| 8 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 safe | amod |
| 9 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hole | acl:relcl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nipped | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nip back | past | Mouse | Mouse's hole | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to hole=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 he go?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | would | Mouse | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
into the wall
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | into | into | ADP | _ | 3 wall | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wall | det |
| 3 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
back to his hole
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | back | back | ADV | _ | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 hole | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 hole | nmod:poss |
| 4 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 back | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
to his bed
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 bed | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bed | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
home
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
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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