Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…
bro, how many mice fit in that tiny hole?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many mice · What happens: fit · To what, where: tiny hole
This is test 5 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fit | punct |
| 3 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mice | amod |
| 5 | mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 fit | nsubj |
| 6 | fit | fit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 hole | case |
| 8 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hole | det |
| 9 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hole | amod |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fit | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 fit | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fit | present | many mice | that tiny hole | bro vocative | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent in hole=Trajectory |
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 right answer
two, but they gotta squeeze
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 squeeze | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 squeeze | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 squeeze | nsubj |
| 5 | gotta | gotta | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 squeeze | aux |
| 6 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 two | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | they | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
two, but they gotta squeeze real hard to get in there
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 squeeze | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 squeeze | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 squeeze | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 squeeze | nsubj |
| 5 | gotta | gotta | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 squeeze | aux |
| 6 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 hard | amod |
| 8 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 squeeze | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 get | mark |
| 10 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 hard | xcomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADV | _ | 10 get | advmod |
| 12 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 get | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | two | hard property | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | get in | to-infinitive | two not said here | there | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
two, they squeeze in tight
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 squeeze | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 squeeze | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 squeeze | nsubj |
| 4 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 tight | case |
| 6 | tight | tight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 squeeze | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | present | two | tight | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
two, but they gotta squeeze, cause that hole is super tiny and narrow lol
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 squeeze | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 squeeze | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 squeeze | cc |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 squeeze | nsubj |
| 5 | gotta | gotta | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 squeeze | aux |
| 6 | squeeze | squeeze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 tiny | punct |
| 8 | cause | cause | SCONJ | _ | 13 tiny | mark |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 10 hole | det |
| 10 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tiny | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 tiny | cop |
| 12 | super | super | ADV | _ | 13 tiny | advmod |
| 13 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 squeeze | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 narrow | cc |
| 15 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 tiny | conj |
| 16 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 6 squeeze | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | squeeze | two | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | that hole | super, tiny property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | that hole not said here | tree rules |
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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