Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

is it a fable, like the animals talk and teach you something?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: it, animals · What happens: be, talk, teach · To what, where: fable, something, you

This is test 12 · ★ 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fable	cop
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fable	nsubj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fable	det
4	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 talk	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 talk	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 animals	det
8	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 talk	nsubj
9	talk	talk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 teach	cc
11	teach	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 talk	conj
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 teach	iobj
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 teach	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fable		tree rules
2	talk	present	the animals			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	teach speech: other	present	the animals not said here	something	you	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient something=Topic

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 · ← Mova's choice

nope, it's a funny poem about animals who sing and dance together in the forest

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 poem	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 poem	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 poem	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 poem	det
6	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 poem	amod
7	poem	poem	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 animals	case
9	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 poem	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 sing	nsubj
11	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 animals	acl:relcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dance	cc
13	dance	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 sing	conj
14	together	together	ADV	_	13 dance	advmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 forest	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 forest	det
17	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dance	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a funny poem		about animals	tree rules
2	sing speech: express	present	animals				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	dance	present	animals not said here		the forest	together property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 2

yep, it's a fable about a fox who learns to be honest with others

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 fable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fable	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fable	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fable	det
6	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 fox	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 fox	det
9	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fable	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 learns	nsubj
11	learns	learn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 fox	acl:relcl
12	to	to	PART	_	14 honest	mark
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 honest	cop
14	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 learns	xcomp
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 others	case
16	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 honest	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fable	about a fox	tree rules
2	learn	present	a fox			vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	to-infinitive	a fox not said here		with others; honest property	tree rules

Option 3

nope, it's a true story about foxes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	7 story	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 story	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 story	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 story	det
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 story	amod
7	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	9 foxes	case
9	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 story	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a true story				about foxes	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yep, it's a fable about pretending

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 fable	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 fable	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fable	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fable	det
6	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 pretending	mark
8	pretending	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fable	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a fable					tree rules
2	pretend	gerund	a fable not said here						tree rules

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