Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…
Lol, what did the Bee ask Jupiter for, you muppet?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bee · What happens: ask · To what, where: Jupiter
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 7 ask | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 ask | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ask | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Bee | det |
| 6 | Bee | Bee | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | nsubj |
| 7 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 muppet | case |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 for | punct |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 muppet | nsubj |
| 12 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ask | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 ask | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past · do-support | the Bee | Jupiter | for muppet | 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
Stings for the bees to kill robbers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 bees | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bees | det |
| 4 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Stings | nmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 kill | mark |
| 6 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | to-infinitive | Stings for the bees | robbers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |
Option 2
A sting for each bee to kill any robber who comes near the hive
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 sting | det |
| 2 | sting | sting | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 bee | case |
| 4 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 bee | det |
| 5 | bee | bee | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 sting | nmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 kill | mark |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 sting | acl |
| 8 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 robber | det |
| 9 | robber | robber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 kill | obj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 comes | nsubj |
| 11 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 robber | acl:relcl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 14 hive | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 hive | det |
| 14 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 comes | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | to-infinitive | any robber | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | present | any robber | the hive | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near hive=Location |
Option 3
Stings for killing robbers
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 3 killing | mark |
| 3 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Stings | acl |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 killing | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | gerund | Stings not said here | robbers | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent robber=Theme |
Option 4
Stings to kill the thieves
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stings | sting | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | nsubj |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 kill | mark |
| 3 | kill | kill | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 thieves | det |
| 5 | thieves | thief | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 kill | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | to-infinitive | Stings | the thieves | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Theme |
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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