Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…

ok so the peasant wanted to chop the tree, what stopped him in the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: peasant, tree · What happens: want, chop, stop · To what, where: tree, peasant, end

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 403 «Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a camel, dogs, a jackdaw and a workman each get a short lesson» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	5 wanted	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peasant	det
4	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chop	mark
7	chop	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 tree	det
9	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 chop	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 stopped	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 stopped	nsubj
12	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tree	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 stopped	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stopped	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	want	past	the peasant			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	chop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the peasant not said here	the tree		vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Patient
3	stop	past	the tree	peasant	in the end	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality he=Eventuality

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 hive full of honey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hive	det
2	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hive	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl

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

Option 2

a flock of birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 flock	det
2	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 birds	case
4	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 flock	nmod

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

Option 3

a hive full of honey and a crowd of angry bees who attacked him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 hive	det
2	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hive	amod
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 honey	case
5	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 full	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 crowd	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 crowd	det
8	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 honey	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 bees	case
10	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 bees	amod
11	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 crowd	nmod
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 attacked	nsubj
13	attacked	attack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 bees	acl:relcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 attacked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	attack	past	angry bees	him = he					vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

a ladder to the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 ladder	det
2	ladder	ladder	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 sky	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sky	det
5	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ladder	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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