Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Innit wild that the Fir-tree was showing off to the Bramble?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fir tree · What happens: show off · To what, where: Bramble

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 wild	compound
2	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 showing	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tree	det
5	Fir	Fir	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tree	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 Fir	punct
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 showing	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 showing	aux
9	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 wild	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 showing	compound:prt
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Bramble	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Bramble	det
13	Bramble	Bramble	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 showing	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	the Fir tree		the Bramble				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to bramble=Recipient

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

Yeah, it was dead full of itself, bragging on about its timber

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 full	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 full	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 full	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 full	amod
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 itself	case
8	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 full	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bragging	punct
10	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 full	advcl
11	on	on	ADP	_	10 bragging	compound:prt
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 timber	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 timber	nmod:poss
14	timber	timber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bragging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					of itself = it; full property	tree rules
2	brag on speech: other	gerund						about its timber	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about timber=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, it was well up itself, going on about how useful it was to everyone

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 itself	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 itself	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 itself	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 itself	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 itself	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 going	punct
9	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 itself	conj
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 going	compound:prt
11	about	about	SCONJ	_	13 useful	mark
12	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	13 useful	advmod
13	useful	useful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 going	xcomp
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 everyone	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 everyone	cop
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 everyone	case
17	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	13 useful	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	it	up itself = it; well property	tree rules
2	go on	gerund		useful property	vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past	it	to everyone	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, it was just being nice

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 nice	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 nice	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 nice	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 nice	advmod
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 nice	cop
7	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it was well up itself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 up	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 up	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 up	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	6 up	advmod
6	up	up	ADP	_	root	root
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 up	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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