Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Yo, why was the Bull dead chill about the Gnat?

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

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	8 chill	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 chill	advmod
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 chill	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chill	det
6	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chill	compound
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 chill	amod
8	chill	chill	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	about	about	ADP	_	11 Gnat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Gnat	det
11	Gnat	Gnat	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 chill	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 chill	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Bull dead chill				about the Gnat	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

He didn't even notice it landing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 notice	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 notice	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 notice	advmod
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 notice	advmod
5	notice	notice	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 notice	obj
7	landing	land	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 notice	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not notice	past · do-support	He	it					tree rules
2	land	gerund							vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

He never saw it land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
2	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 saw	advmod
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	obj
5	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not see	past	He	it					tree rules

Option 3

He was too lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lazy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lazy	aux
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 lazy	advmod
4	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

He was off in a daydream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 was	compound:prt
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 daydream	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 daydream	det
6	daydream	daydream	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be off	past	He			a daydream			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in daydream=Location

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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