Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…
Wait, what did the Fox say to that?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, do, say · To what, where: Fox · Speech: someone speaks here
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | Wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Wait | parataxis |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 that | case |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 say | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | do | past | the Fox | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | present | to that | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient whether/if S»: agent=Pivot to that=Experiencer clause=Topic |
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
"Yes"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Yes | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
"By no means"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| 2 | By | by | ADP | _ | 3 no | case |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 means | obl |
| 4 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 means | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mean in a quote | present | by no | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
"Maybe another time"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 2 | Maybe | maybe | ADV | _ | 4 time | advmod |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
"Oh, very well"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 well | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 well | punct |
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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