Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

what's the lesson here, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lesson · What happens: be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lesson	det
4	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 what	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	vocative
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the lesson			here		mate vocative	tree rules

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

peace is better than food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 better	cop
3	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
4	than	than	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 better	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	peace					than food; good property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

peace beats posh food with fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	nsubj
2	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	peace	posh food				with fear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with fear=Instrument

Option 3

fancy food beats quiet peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fancy	fancy	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 food	compound
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	nsubj
3	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 peace	amod
5	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	fancy food	quiet peace					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location peace=Theme

Option 4

peace beats posh food with fear, so chill at home with your roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	nsubj
2	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 fear	case
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beats	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 chill	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 chill	advmod
9	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 beats	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 home	case
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 chill	obl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 roots	case
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 roots	nmod:poss
14	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 chill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	peace	posh food				with fear	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent food=Patient with fear=Instrument
2	chill	infinitive	peace not said here			home		with your roots	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with root=Instrument

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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