--- title: Oi, so who starts the mockin' of the Tortoise, yeah? — Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto… · tree and pragmatics description: Oi, so who starts the mockin' of the Tortoise, yeah? Test 1 · ★ of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» of the books course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each opti --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/384-pg21-part5/t1/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Books](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/) / [Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Torto…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/384-pg21-part5/) / t1 # Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare… Oi, so who starts the mockin' of the Tortoise, yeah? **Mova's choice:** option 3 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Oi · **What happens:** start · **To what, where:** mockin This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 384 «Aesop's Fables, The Hare and the Tortoise: a boastful Hare loses a race to a slow but steady Tortoise» 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/books/384-pg21-part5/#t1). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t1:1 # text = Oi, so who starts the mockin' of the Tortoise, yeah? 1 Oi oi NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ SpaceAfter=No 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 so so ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 starts start VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 acl:relcl _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 mockin mockin NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 8 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 7 punct _ _ 9 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 Tortoise tortoise NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 13 yeah yeah INTJ UH _ 5 discourse _ SpaceAfter=No 14 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **start** | present | Oi | the mockin of the Tortoise | | | | | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mockin=Eventuality | 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 {#options} ### Option 1 {#o1} the Hare and then the Fox joins in too ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t1:o1:1 # text = the Hare and then the Fox joins in too 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ _ 3 and and CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 4 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 6 advmod _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 Fox fox NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 conj _ _ 7 joins join VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 in in ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 too too ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **join in** | present | the Hare and the Fox | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2} the Hare ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t1:o2:1 # text = the Hare 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 0 root _ _ ``` The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence. ### Option 3 · ← Mova's choice {#o3} the other animals who lived near the wood ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t1:o3:1 # text = the other animals who lived near the wood 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 other other ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 animals animal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 4 who who PRON WP PronType=Rel 5 nsubj _ _ 5 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 acl:relcl _ _ 6 near near ADP IN _ 8 case _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 wood wood NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obl _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | the other animals | | | the wood | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near wood=Location | ### Option 4 {#o4} the Squirrel ```conllu # sent_id = question:books:384-pg21-part5:t1:o4:1 # text = the Squirrel 1 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Squirrel squirrel NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 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. 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