Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

wait, why did the fox keep jumping, was he mad or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, fox · What happens: wait, keep, jump, be

This is test 3 · ★ 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 keep	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 keep	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	nsubj
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
8	jumping	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mad	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 mad	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 mad	nsubj
12	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	parataxis
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 mad	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	keep	past · do-support	the fox		tree rules
3	jump	gerund	the fox not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	is	past	fox	mad property	tree rules

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

he was lowkey mad about it

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	4 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
3	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	4 mad	advmod
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					about it; lowkey, mad property	tree rules

Option 2

he wanted to show 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 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 show	mark
4	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wanted	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 show	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	show off not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he was hungry and wanted them bad

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wanted	cc
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	conj
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	obj
7	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					hungry property	tree rules
2	want	past	he not said here	them = they				bad property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot they=Theme

Option 4

he was mad at the vine and kept trying to knock it down

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	3 mad	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	6 vine	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vine	det
6	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 mad	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 kept	cc
8	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 mad	conj
9	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 kept	xcomp
10	to	to	PART	_	11 knock	mark
11	knock	knock	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 trying	xcomp
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 knock	obj
13	down	down	ADP	_	11 knock	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		the vine	mad property	tree rules
2	keep	past	he not said here				tree rules
3	try	gerund	he not said here				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	knock down not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	vine			vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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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