Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Bruv, what did the Slave decide to do after living with the Lion?

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

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 decide	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 decide	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 decide	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Slave	det
6	Slave	slave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 decide	nsubj
7	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 do	mark
9	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 decide	xcomp
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 living	mark
11	living	live	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 do	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 Lion	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lion	det
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 living	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 decide	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	decide	past · do-support	the Slave	Bruv vocative	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent what=Co-Agent clause=Topic
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Slave not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	live	gerund	the Slave not said here	with the Lion	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with lion=Location

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

Ask the Lion to let him go and then head straight back to the town for his mates

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Lion	det
3	Lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Ask	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 head	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 head	advmod
10	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ask	conj
11	straight	straight	ADV	_	12 back	advmod
12	back	back	ADV	_	1 Ask	advmod
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 town	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 town	det
15	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 back	obl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 mates	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 mates	nmod:poss
18	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	imperative	you not said here		the Lion	for Lion's mates	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	you not said here	Lion			tree rules
3	go	infinitive	Lion not said here				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Go back to the town to fetch his mates and tell the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fetch	mark
7	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Go	advcl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fetch	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 tell	cc
11	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fetch	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 others	det
13	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here		to the town result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result
2	fetch	to-infinitive	you not said here	his mates		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mate=Theme
3	tell speech: assert	infinitive	you not said here	the others		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent other=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Go back to the town for his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 Go	advmod
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 town	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 town	det
5	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Go	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 mates	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mates	nmod:poss
8	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Go	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	imperative	you not said here					to the town result; for his mates	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to town=Result

Option 4

Head back to his village

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 back	compound
2	back	back	ADV	_	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 village	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 village	nmod:poss
5	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 back	obl

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

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