Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Bruv, why'd the donkey keep lying down, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: keep, lie down, innit · To what, where: donkey

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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 keep	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 keep	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 donkey	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 keep	obl
7	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 keep	xcomp
9	down	down	ADV	_	8 lying	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 keep	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	keep	present		the donkey	Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	lie down	gerund	the donkey not said here		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	innit	infinitive				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

To wash its load clean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 wash	mark
2	wash	wash	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 load	nmod:poss
4	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wash	obj
5	clean	clean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wash	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wash	to-infinitive		its load				clean property	vn floss-41.2.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient

Option 2

To have a rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 have	mark
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 rest	det
4	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	to-infinitive		a rest					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rest=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To make the load lighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 make	mark
2	make	make	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 load	det
4	load	load	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 make	obj
5	lighter	light	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	to-infinitive		the load				light property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset load=Product

Option 4

To cool off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 cool	mark
2	cool	cool	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 cool	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool off	to-infinitive							vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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