Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

was the eagle's nest a bush or a tall tree, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: nest

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 402 «Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals the fox's cub, and the fox takes revenge with fire» 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nest	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nest	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 eagle	case
5	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 bush	det
7	bush	bush	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nest	appos
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 tree	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 tree	det
10	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 tree	amod
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bush	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bush	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 nest	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the eagle's nest					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 · ✓ the right answer

a tall tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
2	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 tree	amod
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

a big oak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 oak	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 oak	amod
3	oak	oak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

a very tall tree up on the hill above the village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tree	det
2	very	very	ADV	_	3 tall	advmod
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 tree	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 hill	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hill	det
8	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tree	nmod
9	above	above	ADP	_	11 village	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 village	det
11	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hill	nmod

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

Option 4

a rock ledge

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 ledge	det
2	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ledge	compound
3	ledge	ledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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