Test 5 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…
Bruv, what did the lion get when he tried to fight?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion · What happens: do, get, try, fight
This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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 | Bruv | Bruv | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | vocative |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Bruv | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lion | det |
| 6 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 get | nsubj |
| 7 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | ccomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 tried | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 tried | nsubj |
| 10 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 get | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 fight | mark |
| 12 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 tried | xcomp |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Bruv vocative | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | get | present | the lion | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | try | past | lion | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fight not said to happen | to-infinitive | lion not said here | vn battle-36.4-1 «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
He ran off
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | off | off | ADP | _ | 2 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run off | past | He | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Stuck, couldn't get free
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | advcl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Stuck | punct |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 get | aux |
| 4 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 get | advmod |
| 5 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 get | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not get | could | free property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
Option 3
Got knocked out cold
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 knocked | aux:pass |
| 2 | knocked | knock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 3 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 knocked | compound:prt |
| 4 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 knocked | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | knock out | past · passive | cold property | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart» |
Option 4
Got eaten
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | participle | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||||
| 2 | eat | participle | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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