Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…
Innit, what did the Owl offer the Grasshopper as a chill drink?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Owl · What happens: offer · To what, where: Grasshopper
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Innit | Innit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Innit | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 offer | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 offer | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Owl | det |
| 6 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | nsubj |
| 7 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Grasshopper | det |
| 9 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obj |
| 10 | as | as | ADP | _ | 13 drink | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 drink | det |
| 12 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 drink | amod |
| 13 | drink | drink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 offer | obl |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 offer | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | offer | past · do-support | the Owl | the Grasshopper | as a chill drink; Innit vocative | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal grasshopper=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
Sweet juice from Venus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sweet | sweet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 juice | amod |
| 2 | juice | juice | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Venus | case |
| 4 | Venus | Venus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 juice | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Some nectar from Pallas, the goddess of wisdom and war
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 nectar | det |
| 2 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Pallas | case |
| 4 | Pallas | Pallas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nectar | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 goddess | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 goddess | det |
| 7 | goddess | goddess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nectar | conj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 wisdom | case |
| 9 | wisdom | wisdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goddess | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 war | cc |
| 11 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 nectar | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Some nectar from Pallas
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 nectar | det |
| 2 | nectar | nectar | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Pallas | case |
| 4 | Pallas | Pallas | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 nectar | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
Some wine from Bacchus
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 wine | det |
| 2 | wine | wine | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | from | from | ADP | _ | 4 Bacchus | case |
| 4 | Bacchus | Bacchus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 wine | 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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