Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Mate, what's the big moral from the Flea and the Man?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be · To what, where: big moral

This is test 8 · ★ 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moral	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 moral	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moral	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moral	det
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 moral	amod
7	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 Flea	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Flea	det
10	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 moral	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 Man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Man	det
13	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 Flea	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Mate and the big moral	the big moral				from the Flea and the Man	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

Don't waste your pity on a scamp

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 waste	advmod
3	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pity	nmod:poss
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 scamp	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 scamp	det
8	scamp	scamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not waste	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your pity				on a scamp goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pity=Asset on scamp=Goal
2	pity		your						nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

Don't trust a sneaky one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 trust	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 trust	advmod
3	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 one	det
5	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 one	amod
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trust	imperative · do-support	you not said here	a sneaky one					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme

Option 3

Don't waste your pity on a little scamp who will just bite you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 waste	advmod
3	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 pity	nmod:poss
5	pity	pity	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	9 scamp	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 scamp	det
8	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 scamp	amod
9	scamp	scamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 bite	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 bite	aux
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 bite	advmod
13	bite	bite	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 scamp	acl:relcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 bite	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not waste	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your pity	on a little scamp goal	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent pity=Asset on scamp=Goal
2	bite	future	a little scamp	you		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient
3	pity		your			nom pity «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

Don't pity a rascal at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pity	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 pity	advmod
3	pity	pity	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rascal	det
5	rascal	rascal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 pity	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 pity	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not pity	imperative · do-support	you not said here	a rascal		all			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer rascal=Stimulus

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