Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

was the eagle watching the fox munch or was she asleep?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: eagle · What happens: be, watch, munch · To what, where: eagle, fox

This is test 9 · ★ 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 eagle	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 munch	nsubj
4	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 eagle	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 watching	obj
7	munch	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 asleep	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 asleep	cop
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 asleep	nsubj
11	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 munch	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 munch	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the eagle		tree rules
2	watch	gerund	the eagle not said here	the fox		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme
3	munch	present	the eagle			vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	eagle		asleep 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 · ← Mova's choice

she was watching from above

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 watching	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 watching	aux
3	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 above	case
5	above	above	ADV	_	3 watching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · progressive	she						vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

Option 2

she was asleep up in the nest

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 asleep	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 asleep	cop
3	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 asleep	compound:prt
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 asleep	obl

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she watched it happen

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 watched	nsubj
2	watched	watch	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 watched	obj
4	happen	happen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 watched	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past	she	it					tree rules
2	happen	infinitive							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

she flew off and didn't see anything from the forest

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 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 flew	compound:prt
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 see	cc
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 see	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 see	advmod
7	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 flew	conj
8	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	7 see	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 forest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 forest	det
11	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	she						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not see	past · do-support	she not said here	anything		the forest			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer anything=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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