Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

mate, why did the eagle nick the cub, was she skint?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle, mate · What happens: nick, be · To what, where: cub

This is test 3 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 skint	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 nick	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 nick	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nick	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 eagle	det
6	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nick	nsubj
7	nick	nick	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 mate	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cub	det
9	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 nick	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 mate	punct
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 skint	cop
12	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 skint	nsubj
13	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 skint	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · do-support	the eagle	the cub					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Patient
2	is	past	mate					skint property	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

for fun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	for	for	ADP	_	2 fun	case
2	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

she needed grub for her chicks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 needed	nsubj
2	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 needed	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 chicks	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 chicks	nmod:poss
6	chicks	chick	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 needed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	she	grub				for her chicks	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot grub=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

was she hungry

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	3 hungry	cop
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					hungry property	tree rules

Option 4

she was short of food for her kids

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 short	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 short	cop
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 short	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 kids	case
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kids	nmod:poss
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 short	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					of food; for her kids; short property	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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