Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Bro, what did the Bear do to the Traveller who was playing dead?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bear · What happens: do, play

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Bear	det
6	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Traveller	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Traveller	det
10	Traveller	Traveller	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	obl
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 playing	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 playing	aux
13	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 do	advcl
14	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 playing	xcomp
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the Bear					to the Traveller; Bro vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	play	past · progressive						dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Sniffed all over him, then just buzzed off into the woods

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sniffed	sniff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	all	all	ADV	_	4 him	advmod
3	over	over	ADP	_	4 him	case
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sniffed	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 buzzed	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 buzzed	advmod
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 buzzed	advmod
8	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Sniffed	conj
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 buzzed	compound:prt
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 woods	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 woods	det
12	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 buzzed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	participle						over him = he	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over he=Theme
2	buzz off	participle				the woods	then		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent into wood=Recipient

Option 2

Sniffed him and then left him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sniffed	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 left	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 left	advmod
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Sniffed	conj
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past		him = he					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	leave	past		him = he			then		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Sniffed him all over and buzzed off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sniffed	sniff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sniffed	obj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 over	advmod
4	over	over	ADV	_	1 Sniffed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 buzzed	cc
6	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Sniffed	conj
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 buzzed	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sniff	past		him = he				over property	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	buzz off	participle							vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Poked him and wandered off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Poked	poke	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Poked	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 wandered	cc
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Poked	conj
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wandered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poke	past		him = he					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.instrument PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Instrument
2	wander off	past							vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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