Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…
the fox and the crane both served food nobody could eat, lol?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, nobody · What happens: serve, eat · To what, where: food
This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 fox | det |
| 2 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 crane | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 crane | det |
| 5 | crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fox | conj |
| 6 | both | both | ADV | _ | 7 served | advmod |
| 7 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 served | obj |
| 9 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 eat | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 eat | aux |
| 11 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 food | acl:relcl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lol | punct |
| 13 | lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 served | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 served | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | serve | past | the fox and the crane | food | both property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Attribute | |||
| 2 | eat | could | nobody | food not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dinner | case |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | they | each | with dinner | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 2
Yeah, they both starved
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 starved | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 starved | nsubj |
| 4 | both | both | ADV | _ | 5 starved | advmod |
| 5 | starved | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | past | they | both property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, they got back at each other with dinner in weird dishes
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 got | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 got | advmod |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 each | case |
| 7 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 4 got | obl |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 each | fixed |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 dinner | case |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 got | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 dishes | case |
| 12 | weird | weird | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 dishes | amod |
| 13 | dishes | dish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 got | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get back | past | they | each | with dinner; in weird dishes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 4
Nah, they shared dinner
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 shared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 shared | nsubj |
| 4 | shared | share | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 shared | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | share | past | they | dinner | 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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