Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…
so the wagon squished him flat, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wagon · What happens: squish · To what, where: him
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 squished | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 wagon | det |
| 3 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 squished | nsubj |
| 4 | squished | squish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 squished | obj |
| 6 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squished | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 flat | punct |
| 8 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 squished | discourse |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 squished | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squish | past | the wagon | him = he | flat property | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP.instrument V NP»: agent=Instrument he=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
nah, he lived
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 lived | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | he | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2
yeah, by a cart's wheel
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 7 wheel | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 wheel | punct |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 wheel | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 cart | det |
| 5 | cart | cart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wheel | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 cart | case |
| 7 | wheel | wheel | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, under its wheels
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 wheels | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 wheels | punct |
| 3 | under | under | ADP | _ | 5 wheels | case |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wheels | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
yeah, flat
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 flat | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yeah | punct |
| 3 | flat | flat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
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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