Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Mate, what did the Frogs wanna lob at Jupiter?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate, Frogs · What happens: do, wanna · To what, where: lob, Jupiter

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Frogs	det
6	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 wanna	nsubj
7	wanna	wanna	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	lob	lob	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wanna	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 Jupiter	case
10	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wanna	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Mate						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	wanna	present	the Frogs	lob		Jupiter			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

A proper moan about the Sun going on about wanting a wife and sons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moan	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moan	amod
3	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 moan	nmod
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 moan	acl
8	on	on	ADP	_	7 going	compound:prt
9	about	about	SCONJ	_	10 wanting	mark
10	wanting	want	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 going	advcl
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wife	det
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanting	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sons	cc
14	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 wife	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go on	gerund	a proper moan about the Sun not said here						vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	want	gerund	a proper moan about the Sun not said here	a wife and sons					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wife=Theme

Option 2

A proper long moan about the Sun wanting to marry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 moan	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moan	amod
3	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 moan	amod
4	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 wanting	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sun	det
7	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wanting	nsubj
8	wanting	want	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 moan	acl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 marry	mark
10	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 wanting	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	gerund	the Sun	a proper long moan not said here					tree rules
2	marry not said to happen	to-infinitive	a proper long moan not said here						vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

A bit of a chat about rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bit	det
2	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 chat	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 chat	det
5	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 bit	nmod
6	about	about	ADP	_	7 rain	case
7	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chat	nmod

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A proper moan about the Sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 moan	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 moan	amod
3	moan	moan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	about	about	ADP	_	6 Sun	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Sun	det
6	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 moan	nmod

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

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