Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
the dolphin drowned the monkey for lying, proper harsh, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dolphin, monkey · What happens: drown, lie · To what, where: monkey
This is test 14 · ★ 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 dolphin | det |
| 2 | dolphin | dolphin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowned | nsubj |
| 3 | drowned | drown | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 monkey | det |
| 5 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drowned | obj |
| 6 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 7 lying | mark |
| 7 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 monkey | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 harsh | punct |
| 9 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 harsh | amod |
| 10 | harsh | harsh | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 drowned | parataxis |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 harsh | punct |
| 12 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 drowned | discourse |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 drowned | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drown | past | the dolphin | the monkey | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lie | gerund | the monkey not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, for the fib about Athens
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 fib | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 fib | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 fib | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 fib | det |
| 5 | fib | fib | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Athens | case |
| 7 | Athens | Athens | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 fib | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
nah, for a joke at sea
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 joke | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 joke | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 joke | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 joke | det |
| 5 | joke | joke | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 sea | case |
| 7 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 joke | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
nah, for snoring
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 snoring | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 snoring | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 snoring | case |
| 4 | snoring | snoring | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, for a lie about Rhodes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 lie | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 lie | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 lie | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 lie | det |
| 5 | lie | lie | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 Rhodes | case |
| 7 | Rhodes | Rhodes | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 lie | nmod |
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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