Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
the hart got shot for nibbling the vine, dumb move, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: shoot, nibble · To what, where: hart, vine
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 hart | det |
| 2 | hart | hart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 shot | aux:pass |
| 4 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 6 nibbling | mark |
| 6 | nibbling | nibble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 shot | conj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 vine | det |
| 8 | vine | vine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 nibbling | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 move | punct |
| 10 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 move | amod |
| 11 | move | move | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 vine | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 yeah | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 nibbling | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 shot | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past · passive | the hart | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | nibble | gerund | the vine | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vine=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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
yeah, he was nibbling the tendrils
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 nibbling | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 nibbling | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 nibbling | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 nibbling | aux |
| 5 | nibbling | nibble | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tendrils | det |
| 7 | tendrils | tendril | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 nibbling | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nibble | past · progressive | he | the tendrils | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendril=Patient |
Option 2
nah, he was lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 lost | aux:pass |
| 5 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past · passive | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
Option 3
yeah, he was shot
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 shot | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shot | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shot | aux:pass |
| 5 | shot | shoot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shoot | past · passive | he | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
Option 4
yeah, he was eating leaves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 eating | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 eating | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 eating | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 eating | aux |
| 5 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | leaves | leaf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 eating | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | past · progressive | he | leaves | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient |
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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