Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

wait, what's the country mouse eating on the plowlands?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, country mouse · What happens: wait, be, eat · To what, where: country mouse, plowlands

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mouse	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 mouse	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 mouse	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 mouse	det
6	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 mouse	compound
7	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 mouse	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 plowlands	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 plowlands	det
11	plowlands	plowland	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 eating	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	present		the country mouse		tree rules
3	eat	gerund	the country mouse not said here		the plowlands	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

wheat and figs from the town

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 figs	cc
3	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wheat	conj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 town	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 town	det
6	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 figs	nmod

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

Option 2

just roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	just	just	ADV	_	2 roots	advmod
2	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

wheat and roots from the hedgerow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 roots	cc
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wheat	conj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 hedgerow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 hedgerow	det
6	hedgerow	hedgerow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 roots	nmod

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

Option 4

wheat, roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roots	punct
3	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wheat	conj

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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