Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Why was the Boar sharpening his tusks, mate?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Boar · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 140 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, part 10: animals and a Man quarrel, learn small lessons and get their comeuppance» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 sharpening	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sharpening	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boar	det
4	Boar	Boar	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 sharpening	nsubj
5	sharpening	sharpen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tusks	nmod:poss
7	tusks	tusk	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sharpening	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tusks	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 sharpening	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Boar					sharpen property	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

Because danger was gone and he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Because	because	SCONJ	_	4 gone	mark
2	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	cop
4	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bored	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bored	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bored	cop
8	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	danger					gone property	tree rules
2	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

In case danger came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 danger	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danger	compound
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				case danger			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Location

Option 3

To look fierce

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 look	mark
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fierce	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 look	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	to-infinitive						fierce property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

In case danger came and he had no time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 danger	case
2	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 danger	compound
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 had	cc
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
8	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	9 time	det
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past				case danger			vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in danger=Location
2	have	past	he				time		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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