Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Bruv, why did the Ass go full mental and smash the dinner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ass · What happens: go, smash · To what, where: dinner

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ass	det
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mental	amod
9	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 go	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 smash	cc
11	smash	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 go	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dinner	det
13	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 smash	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Ass					Bruv vocative; mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	smash	present	the Ass not said here	the dinner					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

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 mad jealous of the posh Lap-dog getting all the attention and treats

The tree, 15 words

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 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 jealous	amod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	10 dog	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 dog	det
7	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 dog	amod
8	Lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dog	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 Lap	punct
10	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	obl
11	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 dog	acl
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 attention	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 attention	det
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 getting	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 treats	cc
16	treats	treat	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dog	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the posh Lap dog and treats; jealous property	tree rules
2	get	gerund	the posh Lap dog and treats not said here	all attention					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer attention=Stimulus

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was well jealous of the Lap-dog

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 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	9 dog	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
7	Lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dog	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 Lap	punct
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					of the Lap dog; jealous, well property	tree rules

Option 3

He was proper hungry, innit

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 hungry	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hungry	cop
3	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 hungry	advmod
4	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hungry	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 hungry	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					hungry, properly property	tree rules

Option 4

He just wanted to eat it all

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 wanted	nsubj
2	just	just	ADV	_	3 wanted	advmod
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 wanted	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	obj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 it	det

#	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	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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