Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

Yo, when the Hawk nabbed the Nightingale, what did the Hawk say he was NOT dropping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hawk · What happens: nab, say, not drop · To what, where: Nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 nabbed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 nabbed	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hawk	det
5	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nabbed	nsubj
6	nabbed	nab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Nightingale	det
8	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 nabbed	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 say	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hawk	det
13	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 Nightingale	acl:relcl
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 dropping	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 dropping	aux
17	NOT	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 dropping	advmod
18	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 say	ccomp
19	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 nabbed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	nab	past	the Hawk	the Nightingale	vn prosecute-33.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nightingale=Patient
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Hawk	the Nightingale	tree rules
3	not drop	past · progressive	Hawk		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 worm in his talons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 worm	det
2	worm	worm	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 talons	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 talons	nmod:poss
5	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 worm	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

His meal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 meal	nmod:poss
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The dinner in his claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dinner	det
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 claws	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 claws	nmod:poss
5	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dinner	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The snack in his beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snack	det
2	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 beak	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beak	nmod:poss
5	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snack	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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