Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Bruv, in the Man and Lion thing, who won the argument?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bruv thing · What happens: win · To what, where: argument

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 thing	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Man	punct
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 Man	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Man	det
5	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	appos
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 Lion	cc
7	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Bruv	conj
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 won	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 won	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 won	nsubj
11	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 argument	det
13	argument	argument	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 won	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 won	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	Bruv thing	the argument					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent argument=Eventuality

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

Neither, they both gave up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 gave	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gave	nsubj
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	5 gave	nsubj
5	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	they					neither property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The Man, obviously, won it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Man	det
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 won	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 Man	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Man	punct
6	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 won	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	past	the Man	it					vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Neither, they just kept on going at it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Neither	neither	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Neither	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 kept	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 kept	advmod
5	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	SCONJ	_	7 going	mark
7	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 kept	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they					neither property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	they not said here			it			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at it=Location

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Man won, because the statue he had carved was obviously the best evidence of the matter

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Man	det
2	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	nsubj
3	won	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 evidence	punct
5	because	because	SCONJ	_	15 evidence	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 statue	det
7	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 evidence	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 carved	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 carved	aux
10	carved	carve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 statue	acl:relcl
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 evidence	cop
12	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	15 evidence	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 evidence	det
14	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 evidence	amod
15	evidence	evidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 won	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 matter	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 matter	det
18	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 evidence	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	win	past	the Man			vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	carve	past · perfect	Man	the statue not said here		vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Theme
3	is a	past	the statue	the best evidence	of the matter; obviously property	tree rules

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