Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

how did the baby eagles end up, were they sorted or dead?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: eagles, baby eagles · What happens: do, end up, be

This is test 7 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sorted	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 eagles	det
4	baby	baby	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eagles	compound
5	eagles	eagle	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 end	nsubj
6	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 end	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sorted	cop
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sorted	nsubj
11	sorted	sort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 dead	cc
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 sorted	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 sorted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past	eagles = eagle not said here		tree rules
2	end up	present	the baby eagles		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	is	past	eagles = eagle	sort property	tree rules
4	be		eagles = eagle 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

they got burnt alive in the nest when the fire spread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 burnt	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	aux:pass
3	burnt	burnt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 burnt	xcomp
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 nest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nest	det
7	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 burnt	obl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 spread	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fire	det
10	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 spread	nsubj
11	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 burnt	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	burnt	past · passive		they		the nest		alive property	tree rules
2	spread	past	the fire						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

roasted in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 nest	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 nest	det
4	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 roasted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	participle						in the nest	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Patient in nest=Instrument

Option 3

fell out of the tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	out	out	ADP	_	5 tree	case
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 tree	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past				the tree			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out tree=Location

Option 4

the fox grabbed them before the fire reached the nest

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	3 grabbed	nsubj
3	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 grabbed	obj
5	before	before	SCONJ	_	8 reached	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fire	det
7	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	nsubj
8	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 grabbed	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nest	det
10	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reached	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	past	the fox	them = they					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	reach	past	the fire	the nest					vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent nest=Theme

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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