Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…
Sus question: what's "molest" supposed to mean?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus question · What happens: be, suppose, mean
This is test 11 · ★ 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 | Sus | suspect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 question | amod |
| 2 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 molest | nsubj |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 7 molest | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 molest | obj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 molest | cop |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 molest | punct |
| 7 | molest | mol | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 8 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 molest | punct |
| 9 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 molest | acl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 mean | mark |
| 11 | mean | mean | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 supposed | xcomp |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 molest | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Sus question | mol property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | mean | to-infinitive | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
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
To cover something completely with thick mud or dirt
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 cover | mark |
| 2 | cover | cover | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 cover | obj |
| 4 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 2 cover | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 mud | case |
| 6 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 mud | amod |
| 7 | mud | mud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 cover | obl |
| 8 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 dirt | cc |
| 9 | dirt | dirt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mud | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | to-infinitive | something | with thick mud or dirt; completely property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent something=Destination with mud=Theme |
Option 2
To hide
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 hide | mark |
| 2 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | to-infinitive | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
To tickle gently
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 tickle | mark |
| 2 | tickle | tickle | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | gently | gently | ADV | _ | 2 tickle | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tickle | to-infinitive | gently property | vn tingle-40.8.2 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
To bother or pester
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 bother | mark |
| 2 | bother | bother | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 pester | cc |
| 4 | pester | pester | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 bother | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bother | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 2 | pester | infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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