Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
proper sad, the pond frog begged his mate to move, right?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: pond frog, mate · What happens: beg, move · To what, where: mate
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 7 begged | advmod |
| 2 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 proper | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 proper | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 frog | det |
| 5 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 frog | compound |
| 6 | frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | nsubj |
| 7 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mate | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 begged | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 move | mark |
| 11 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 begged | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
| 13 | right | right | INTJ | _ | 7 begged | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 begged | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the pond frog | frog's mate | properly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent mate=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | move not said to happen | to-infinitive | frog's mate not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
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, come live with me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 come | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 come | punct |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | live | live | ADV | _ | 3 come | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 come | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | with me; live property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, sure
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 sure | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
yeah, move in with me
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 move | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 move | punct |
| 3 | move | move | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 move | advmod |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 me | case |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 move | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | move in | imperative | you not said here | with me | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nah, I'll stay here
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 stay | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 stay | nsubj |
| 4 | 'll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 stay | aux |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 stay | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stay | future | I | here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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