Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Ngl, what was the Lion doing when he lifted his paw?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ngl, Lion · What happens: do, lift · To what, where: paw

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 doing	nsubj
7	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 lifted	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 lifted	nsubj
10	lifted	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 doing	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 paw	nmod:poss
12	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lifted	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 doing	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	Ngl						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
2	lift	past	Lion	Lion's paw					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=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

Showing the Slave his sore foot so he could pull the thorn out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	10 pull	csubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Slave	det
3	Slave	Slave	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foot	amod
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
7	so	so	SCONJ	_	10 pull	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 pull	nsubj
9	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 pull	aux
10	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 thorn	det
12	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pull	obj
13	out	out	ADP	_	10 pull	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		his sore foot	the Slave				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient foot=Topic
2	pull out	could	he	the thorn					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Showing the Slave his sore foot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Slave	det
3	Slave	Slave	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 foot	nmod:poss
5	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 foot	amod
6	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		his sore foot	the Slave				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient foot=Topic

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Holding up his paw so the Slave could see his sore foot and fix it

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Holding	compound:prt
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 paw	nmod:poss
4	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Holding	obj
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 see	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Slave	det
7	Slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 see	aux
9	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Holding	advcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 foot	nmod:poss
11	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 foot	amod
12	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 see	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fix	cc
14	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 see	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 fix	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	hold up	gerund		his paw	vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot paw=Theme
2	see	could	the Slave	Slave's sore foot	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foot=Stimulus
3	fix	infinitive	the Slave not said here	foot	vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Showing the Slave his hurt paw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Slave	det
3	Slave	Slave	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 paw	nmod:poss
5	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 paw	amod
6	paw	paw	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Showing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	gerund		his hurt paw	the Slave				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent slave=Recipient paw=Topic
2	hurt	participle							vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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