Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

So the fox played a proper dodgy trick with the meat, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: play · To what, where: proper dodgy trick

This is test 3 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 played	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	nsubj
4	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trick	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trick	amod
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trick	amod
8	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 played	obj
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 meat	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meat	det
11	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trick	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 played	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the fox	a proper dodgy trick				with the meat	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent trick=Theme with meat=Co-Agent

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

Nah, the trap was empty then

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 empty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 empty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 empty	cop
6	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 empty	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the trap				then	empty property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was a trap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 trap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 trap	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trap	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	it	a trap					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the trap was baited to catch the monkey

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 baited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 baited	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 trap	det
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 baited	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 baited	aux:pass
6	baited	bait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 catch	mark
8	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 baited	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 monkey	det
10	monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 catch	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bait	past · passive		the trap					vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination
2	catch	to-infinitive		the monkey					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, it was baited for the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 baited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 baited	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 baited	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 baited	aux:pass
5	baited	bait	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 baited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bait	past · passive		it				for the lion	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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