Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

who scoffed the eaglets at the bottom of the tree, bruv?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: scoff · To what, where: eaglets, bottom

This is test 8 · ★ 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	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 scoffed	nsubj
2	scoffed	scoff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 eaglets	det
4	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 scoffed	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 bottom	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bottom	det
7	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 scoffed	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bottom	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 tree	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 scoffed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scoff	past		the eaglets		the bottom of the tree and bruv			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eaglet=Theme

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 fox who had lost her cub to the eagle

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	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 lost	nsubj
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lost	aux
5	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 fox	acl:relcl
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 cub	nmod:poss
7	cub	cub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 eagle	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 eagle	det
10	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lost	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · perfect	the fox	fox's cub				to the eagle	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cub=Eventuality

Option 2

the jackal

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 jackal	det
2	jackal	jackal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the fox

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	root	root

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

Option 4

a vulture

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 vulture	det
2	vulture	vulture	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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