Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

wait, so the fox kinda lied about the grapes?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fox · What happens: wait, lie

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 133 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps for grapes he cannot reach and walks off, calling them sour» 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	_	7 lied	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 lied	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fox	det
5	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lied	nsubj
6	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	7 lied	advmod
7	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 grapes	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grapes	det
10	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 lied	obl
11	?	?	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	lie	past	the fox					about the grapes; kinda property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent about grape=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

yeah, he said they were sweet to fool us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sweet	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sweet	cop
7	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fool	mark
9	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sweet	advcl
10	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they		sweet property	tree rules
3	fool	to-infinitive	they not said here	us		vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he called them sour just so he wouldn't look bad after failing to reach them

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 called	xcomp
7	just	just	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
8	so	so	ADV	_	12 look	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 look	nsubj
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 look	aux
11	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 look	advmod
12	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 called	advcl
13	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 look	xcomp
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 failing	mark
15	failing	fail	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 look	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 reach	mark
17	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 failing	xcomp
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	he	them = they	sour property	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient
2	not look	would	he		bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	fail	gerund	he not said here			vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	not reach	to-infinitive	he not said here	them = they		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

nah, he just said what he thought

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 said	advmod
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 said	obj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 thought	nsubj
8	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
2	think speech: other	past	he						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he said they were sour to save face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sour	nsubj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 sour	cop
7	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 said	ccomp
8	to	to	PART	_	9 save	mark
9	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sour	xcomp
10	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 save	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	they		sour property	tree rules
3	save	to-infinitive	they not said here	face		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent face=Theme

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