Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…
Real talk, what's a ravine?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk · What happens: be · To what, where: ravine
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ravine | punct |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ravine | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 ravine | cop |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 ravine | det |
| 7 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 talk | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Real talk | a ravine | 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
A narrow crack where wild animals hide from the cold winds
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 crack | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 crack | amod |
| 3 | crack | crack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hide | nsubj |
| 4 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 hide | advmod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 animals | amod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hide | nsubj |
| 7 | hide | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 winds | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 winds | det |
| 10 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 winds | amod |
| 11 | winds | wind | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | a narrow crack | the cold winds | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from wind=Beneficiary |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
A deep narrow valley
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 valley | det |
| 2 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 valley | amod |
| 3 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 valley | amod |
| 4 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A wide grassy field
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 field | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 field | amod |
| 3 | grassy | grassy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 field | amod |
| 4 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
A wide sandy beach where animals gather to drink in summer
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 beach | det |
| 2 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beach | amod |
| 3 | sandy | sandy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 beach | amod |
| 4 | beach | beach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gather | obl |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 7 gather | advmod |
| 6 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 gather | nsubj |
| 7 | gather | gather | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 drink | mark |
| 9 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 gather | xcomp |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 summer | case |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 drink | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gather | present | animals | a wide sandy beach | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | drink | to-infinitive | animals not said here | summer | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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