Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…
proper wicked, the snake ended up crashing his head under a wagon, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snake · What happens: end up, crash · To what, where: head, wagon
This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 2 wicked | advmod |
| 2 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ended | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 snake | det |
| 5 | snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ended | nsubj |
| 6 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wicked | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 ended | compound:prt |
| 8 | crashing | crash | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 ended | xcomp |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crashing | obj |
| 11 | under | under | ADP | _ | 13 wagon | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 wagon | det |
| 13 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 crashing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wicked | punct |
| 15 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 2 wicked | discourse |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 wicked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end up | past | the snake | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | crash | gerund | the snake not said here | snake's head | a wagon | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=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.
The options
Option 1 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, under the wheels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wheels | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wheels | punct |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 wheels | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wheels | det |
| 5 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, in the grass
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 grass | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 grass | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 grass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grass | det |
| 5 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
nah, he hid in the bushes by the river and got away
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 hid | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hid | nsubj |
| 4 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 bushes | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 bushes | det |
| 7 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 hid | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hid | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 got | cc |
| 12 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hid | conj |
| 13 | away | away | ADV | _ | 12 got | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | he | the bushes | by the river | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in bush=Location | |||
| 2 | get away | past | he not said here | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
nah, under a stone
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stone | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 stone | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 stone | det |
| 5 | stone | stone | 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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