Test 13 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…
how many tries did the fox make to get the bird to hop?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: many tries, fox, bird · What happens: do, make, get, hop · To what, where: bird
This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 578 «Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets eaten» 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 many | advmod |
| 2 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tries | amod |
| 3 | tries | try | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 make | nsubj |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 get | mark |
| 9 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 make | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bird | det |
| 11 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 get | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 hop | mark |
| 13 | hop | hop | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 get | xcomp |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | many tries | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | make | present | the fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the fox not said here | the bird | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hop | to-infinitive | the bird not said here | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 right answer
four spots: tail, back, head, tooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spots | nummod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 tail | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 head | punct |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 tooth | punct |
| 10 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
four spots: tail, ear, back, nose
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spots | nummod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ear | punct |
| 6 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 back | punct |
| 8 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 tail | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 nose | punct |
| 10 | nose | nose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
five spots: tail, back, head, ear, and finally the tooth
The tree, 10 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spots | nummod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 tail | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 head | punct |
| 8 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ear | punct |
| 10 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 tooth | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 tooth | cc |
| 13 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 15 tooth | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tooth | det |
| 15 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4
three spots: tail, back, tooth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 spots | nummod |
| 2 | spots | spot | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 tail | punct |
| 4 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 spots | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 back | punct |
| 6 | back | back | ADV | _ | 4 tail | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 tooth | punct |
| 8 | tooth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tail | conj |
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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