Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…
why'd they both bolt when the door opened?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: they · What happens: bolt, open · To what, where: door
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 bolt | advmod |
| 2 | 'd | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 bolt | aux |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 bolt | nsubj |
| 4 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bolt | nsubj |
| 5 | bolt | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 opened | advcl |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 opened | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 door | det |
| 8 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 opened | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | opened | open | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 opened | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bolt | would | they | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | open | participle · passive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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
someone came in and they got scared, running off to hide in the wall
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 running | punct |
| 9 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 got | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 running | compound:prt |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 hide | mark |
| 12 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 running | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 wall | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wall | det |
| 15 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hide | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | someone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | they | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | run off | gerund | they not said here | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | hide | to-infinitive | they not said here | the wall | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in wall=Location |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
cause someone came in through the door and they both got scared and ran away lol
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | cause | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 cause | ccomp |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 door | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 got | cc |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | both | both | ADV | _ | 11 got | advmod |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 12 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 got | xcomp |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ran | cc |
| 14 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | conj |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 ran | advmod |
| 16 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 1 cause | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cause | imperative | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | come in | past | someone | the door | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through door=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | get | past | they | both, scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | run away | past | someone not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
somebody walked in, they panicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | somebody | somebody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 walked | nsubj |
| 2 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 walked | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 panicked | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 panicked | nsubj |
| 6 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 walked | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk in | past | somebody | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | panic | past | they | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
someone came in and they got scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | someone | someone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 2 came | nsubj |
| 2 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 came | advmod |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 got | cc |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 got | nsubj |
| 6 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 came | conj |
| 7 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come in | past | someone | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get | past | they | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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