Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…
Who asked "How is this?"
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: ask, be · To what, where: this · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 asked | nsubj |
| 2 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 this | punct |
| 4 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 6 this | advmod |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 this | cop |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 asked | obl |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 asked | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules |
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 · ✓ the right answer
The Hedgehog
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hedgehog | det |
| 2 | Hedgehog | Hedgehog | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
The Fox's brother who had come looking for him that morning
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 brother | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Fox | case |
| 4 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 come | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 come | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 come | aux |
| 7 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 come | xcomp |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 looking | obl |
| 11 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl:unmarked |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past · perfect | the Fox's brother | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | look | gerund | the Fox's brother not said here | morning | for brother | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for he=Theme |
Option 3
The old Badger
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Badger | det |
| 2 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Badger | amod |
| 3 | Badger | Badger | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
The wise old Owl who lived in the tall oak tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Owl | det |
| 2 | wise | wise | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Owl | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Owl | amod |
| 4 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 lived | nsubj |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 9 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 tree | amod |
| 10 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 tree | compound |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the wise old Owl | the tall oak tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location |
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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