Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…
Mate, what did the broke Horse end up pulling?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: do, end up, pull · To what, where: broke Horse
This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 end | nsubj |
| 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 | 1 Mate | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Horse | det |
| 6 | broke | broke | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Horse | amod |
| 7 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | end | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 end | compound:prt |
| 10 | pulling | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 end | xcomp |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 end | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Mate | the broke Horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | end up | present | Mate | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull | gerund | Mate not said here | vn slide-11.2 «NP 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
A dungcart full of manure from the stables
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dungcart | det |
| 2 | dungcart | dungcart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | nsubj |
| 3 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 manure | case |
| 5 | manure | manure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 full | obl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 stables | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 stables | det |
| 8 | stables | stable | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 full | obl |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
A heavy sack
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 sack | det |
| 2 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sack | amod |
| 3 | sack | sack | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
A hay wagon
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 wagon | det |
| 2 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wagon | compound |
| 3 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
A dungcart
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 dungcart | det |
| 2 | dungcart | dungcart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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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