Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Was the Fawn a coward or what, though?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: Fawn

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Fawn	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fawn	det
3	Fawn	fawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 coward	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 coward	det
5	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	or	or	CCONJ	_	7 what	cc
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 coward	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 though	punct
9	though	though	SCONJ	_	5 coward	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 coward	punct

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

He hid from hounds, so his mum was pleased

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 hid	nsubj
2	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	from	from	ADP	_	4 hounds	case
4	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hid	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 pleased	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 pleased	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 mum	nmod:poss
8	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 pleased	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 pleased	cop
10	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 hid	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past	He					from hounds	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent from hound=Beneficiary
2	is	past	his mum					pleased property	tree rules

Option 2

He fought the hounds, so his dad was cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hounds	det
4	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 fought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cross	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	10 cross	advmod
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 dad	nmod:poss
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cross	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cross	cop
10	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 fought	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	He	the hounds					vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hound=Co-Agent
2	is	past	his dad					cross property	tree rules

Option 3

He was brave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 brave	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 brave	cop
3	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					brave property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He ran off from hounds, so his mum was cross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 hounds	case
5	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cross	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 cross	advmod
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mum	nmod:poss
9	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 cross	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cross	cop
11	cross	cross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ran	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He					from hounds	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hound=Trajectory
2	is	past	his mum					cross property	tree rules

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