Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

bro the dog wouldn't let the cows eat the hay, what was he being

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, cows · What happens: not let, eat · To what, where: hay

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	vocative
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 let	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 let	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 let	advmod
6	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cows	det
8	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 eat	nsubj
9	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 let	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hay	det
11	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eat	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 hay	appos
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 being	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 being	nsubj
16	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not let	would	the dog					bro vocative	tree rules
2	eat	present	the cows	the hay					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient

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

a selfish, greedy beast who would not share the hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beast	det
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 selfish	punct
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 share	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 share	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 share	advmod
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beast	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hay	det
11	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	would	a selfish greedy beast	the hay					tree rules

Option 2

a selfish, greedy beast who would not share his food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 beast	det
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 selfish	punct
4	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beast	amod
5	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 share	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 share	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 share	advmod
9	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 beast	acl:relcl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 food	nmod:poss
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 share	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not share	would	a selfish greedy beast	his food					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a selfish beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 beast	det
2	selfish	selfish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 beast	amod
3	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a greedy fool

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fool	det
2	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fool	amod
3	fool	fool	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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