Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

why was the country mouse starving at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: country mouse · What happens: be, starve · To what, where: end

This is test 8 · ★ 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=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 mouse	det
4	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mouse	compound
5	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 why	nsubj
6	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 mouse	acl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 starving	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the country mouse					why property	tree rules
2	starve	gerund	the country mouse not said here				at the end		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

he skipped dinner, too scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 skipped	nsubj
2	skipped	skip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 skipped	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 scared	punct
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 scared	advmod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 skipped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skip	past	he	dinner					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he hadn't eaten, he was too scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 eaten	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	he						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he					scared property	tree rules

Option 3

he hadn't eaten a single bite, cause he was too scared the whole time

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bite	det
6	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bite	amod
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 eaten	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 scared	punct
9	cause	cause	SCONJ	_	13 scared	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scared	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 scared	cop
12	too	too	ADV	_	13 scared	advmod
13	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 time	det
15	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 time	amod
16	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 scared	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	he	a single bite					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bite=Patient
2	is	past	he				time	scared property	tree rules

Option 4

he hadn't eaten, he was too scared to go back for the food

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 scared	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 scared	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 scared	cop
8	too	too	ADV	_	9 scared	advmod
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 eaten	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 scared	advcl
12	back	back	ADV	_	11 go	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 food	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 food	det
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not eat	past · perfect	he		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	he	scared property	tree rules
3	go back	to-infinitive	he not said here	for the food	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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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