Test 9 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…
Did the horse just lowkey stay chill when the lion roared?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: lowkey, lion · What happens: do, stay, roar · To what, where: horse
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 stay | advcl |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 horse | det |
| 3 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Did | obj |
| 4 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 stay | advmod |
| 5 | lowkey | lowkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 stay | nsubj |
| 6 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | chill | chill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 stay | xcomp |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 roared | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 lion | det |
| 10 | lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 roared | nsubj |
| 11 | roared | roar | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 stay | advcl |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 stay | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | lowkey not said here | the horse | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | lowkey | chill property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | roar | participle | the lion | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location |
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
Nah, he panicked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 panicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 panicked | nsubj |
| 4 | panicked | panic | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | panic | past | he | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, he let him sing on
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 let | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 let | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | nsubj |
| 4 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 let | obj |
| 6 | sing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 let | xcomp |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 sing | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | he | him = he | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sing on speech: express | infinitive | him = he not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3
Nah, he ran
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 ran | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 ran | nsubj |
| 4 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | he | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
Nah, he got dead scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 got | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 scared | amod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 got | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | he | scared property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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