Test 9 · ★ · Uncle Remus, The Fate of Mr. Fox: a tattling sparrow gets…
wait, which bird got eaten at the end?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: bird, end
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eaten | punct |
| 3 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 4 bird | det |
| 4 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaten | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 eaten | aux:pass |
| 6 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 wait | advcl |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 end | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 end | det |
| 9 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eaten | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | imperative | you not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | eat | past · passive | which bird | at the end | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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 · ✓ the right answer
the little tattling sparrow
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sparrow | det |
| 2 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 sparrow | amod |
| 3 | tattling | tattling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sparrow | compound |
| 4 | sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
the terrapin
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 terrapin | det |
| 2 | terrapin | terrapin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the sneaky terrapin again
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 terrapin | det |
| 2 | sneaky | sneaky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 terrapin | amod |
| 3 | terrapin | terrapin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 3 terrapin | advmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
the fat old rabbit too
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rabbit | det |
| 2 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rabbit | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rabbit | amod |
| 4 | rabbit | rabbit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 4 rabbit | advmod |
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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