Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

what did the eagle grab off the altar, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: altar · What happens: do, innit · To what, where: eagle grab

This is test 5 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grab	det
4	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grab	compound
5	grab	grab	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 altar	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 altar	det
8	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 altar	acl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the eagle grab				off the altar	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grab=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	the altar not said here						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 bit of goat meat with a cinder

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 meat	case
4	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	compound
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 cinder	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cinder	det
8	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 meat	nmod

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

Option 2

a big chunk of goat meat that still had a glowing cinder on it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 chunk	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 chunk	amod
3	chunk	chunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
5	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	compound
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chunk	nmod
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 had	obj
8	still	still	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chunk	acl:relcl
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 cinder	det
11	glowing	glow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 cinder	amod
12	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	14 it	case
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past		a big chunk of goat meat		cinder	still		tree rules
2	glow	gerund							vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

some burnt bit of meat and a coal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 bit	det
2	burnt	burnt	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 coal	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coal	det
8	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	conj

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

Option 4

a whole goat leg with a hot coal from the altar fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 leg	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 leg	amod
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leg	compound
4	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	8 coal	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coal	det
7	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coal	amod
8	coal	coal	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leg	nmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 fire	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fire	det
11	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fire	compound
12	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coal	nmod

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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