Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…
was the fox proper gutted about the cub or about not getting her own back?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, gut, not get · To what, where: fox, own back
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | 3 fox | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 fox | det |
| 3 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gutted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | proper | properly | ADV | _ | 5 gutted | advmod |
| 5 | gutted | gut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 8 cub | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cub | det |
| 8 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 gutted | obl |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 getting | cc |
| 10 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 12 getting | mark |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 getting | advmod |
| 12 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 cub | conj |
| 13 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 14 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 back | amod |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 getting | obj |
| 16 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 gutted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | gut | participle · passive | the fox | about the cub; properly property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source | ||||
| 3 | not get | gerund | fox's own back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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
not getting paid back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 paid | advmod |
| 2 | getting | get | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 paid | aux:pass |
| 3 | paid | pay | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 3 paid | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not pay back | gerund · passive | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP» |
Option 2
the cub
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 cub | det |
| 2 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
losing her cub mostly
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | losing | lose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 cub | nmod:poss |
| 3 | cub | cub | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 losing | obj |
| 4 | mostly | mostly | ADV | _ | 1 losing | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | gerund | her cub | mostly property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Eventuality |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
not getting her own back
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 getting | advmod |
| 2 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 back | nmod:poss |
| 4 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 back | amod |
| 5 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 getting | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | gerund | her own back | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer back=Stimulus |
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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