Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

Was the sick old lion a dodgy one, bruh?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sick old lion

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lion	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 lion	det
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lion	amod
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lion	amod
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	csubj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 bruh	punct
10	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 one	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the sick old lion					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

Yeah, he ate every visitor who came into the cave, and that's why the footprints all pointed in

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 visitor	det
6	visitor	visitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visitor	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cave	det
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 why	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 why	cc
14	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 why	nsubj
15	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 why	cop
16	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 ate	parataxis
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 footprints	det
18	footprints	footprint	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 pointed	nsubj:pass
19	all	all	ADV	_	20 pointed	advmod
20	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 why	ccomp
21	in	in	ADP	_	20 pointed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	every visitor			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient
2	come	past	every visitor		the cave		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location
3	is	present	that			why property	tree rules
4	point	participle · passive		the footprints		all property	vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he ate the visitors who came into the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 visitors	det
6	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ate	obj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 came	nsubj
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 visitors	acl:relcl
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 cave	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cave	det
11	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 came	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	the visitors					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visitor=Patient
2	come	past	the visitors			the cave			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into cave=Initial_Location

Option 3

Nah, he was just old and sick and asked everyone to come in for a kind chat about his health

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 old	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 old	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 old	advmod
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 sick	cc
8	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 old	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 old	conj
11	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	10 asked	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
14	in	in	ADV	_	13 come	advmod
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 chat	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 chat	det
17	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 chat	amod
18	chat	chat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 come	obl
19	about	about	ADP	_	21 health	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 health	nmod:poss
21	health	health	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 chat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		old property	tree rules
2	be		he not said here			tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	past	he not said here	everyone		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent everyone=Recipient clause=Topic
4	come in not said to happen	to-infinitive	everyone not said here		for a kind chat about his health	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he hunted the animals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hunted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hunted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hunted	nsubj
4	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animals	det
6	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hunted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past	he	the animals					vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=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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