Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…
bro, which tree did Jupiter pick for protection?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bro · What happens: pick
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | bro | bro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pick | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 tree | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 tree | det |
| 4 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 bro | conj |
| 5 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pick | aux |
| 6 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 pick | nsubj |
| 7 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 protection | case |
| 9 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pick | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 pick | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past · do-support | bro and which tree | for protection | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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
ash
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the oak
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 oak | det |
| 2 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the sacred oak at Dodona where the gods spoke to men
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 oak | det |
| 2 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 oak | amod |
| 3 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 Dodona | case |
| 5 | Dodona | Dodona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 oak | nmod |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 9 spoke | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 gods | det |
| 8 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spoke | nsubj |
| 9 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 men | case |
| 11 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 spoke | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past | the sacred oak at Dodona | to men | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to man=Co-Agent |
Option 4
the pine
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 pine | det |
| 2 | pine | pine | 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/403-pg21-part24/t9/