Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Bruv, was the Fox's trick on the Cock actually a proper plan?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: trick

This is test 13 · ★ 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 trick	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 trick	cop
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fox	det
5	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Fox	case
7	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 Cock	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cock	det
10	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod
11	actually	actually	ADV	_	14 plan	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 plan	det
13	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 plan	amod
14	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trick	nmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 trick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Fox's trick				on the Cock; Bruv vocative; a proper plan nmod	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wanted the Cock as breakfast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cock	det
6	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the Cock				as breakfast	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cock=Theme as breakfast=Attribute

Option 2

Nah, he only wanted a chat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 chat	det
7	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	a chat					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot chat=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he wanted the Cock as breakfast and had planned it all along

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cock	det
6	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 breakfast	case
8	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 planned	cc
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 planned	aux
11	planned	plan	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wanted	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 planned	obj
13	all	all	ADV	_	14 along	advmod
14	along	along	ADV	_	11 planned	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	the Cock				as breakfast	vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent cock=Theme as breakfast=Attribute
2	plan	past · perfect	he not said here	breakfast				along property	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

Option 4

Yeah, he was dead hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 hungry	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 hungry	amod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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