Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Lol, the Kid was taking the mick out of the Wolf, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Kid · What happens: take · To what, where: mick, Wolf

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 taking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Kid	det
4	Kid	Kid	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 taking	aux
6	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 mick	det
8	mick	mick	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	12 Wolf	case
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 Wolf	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Wolf	det
12	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 taking	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 taking	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 taking	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 taking	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past · progressive	the Kid	the mick		the Wolf			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent mick=Theme out wolf=Initial_Location

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

From a stall, cos he could smell the hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 stall	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stall	det
3	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stall	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 smell	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 smell	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 smell	aux
8	smell	smell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hay	det
10	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smell	could	he	the hay		a stall			vn see-30.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hay=Stimulus

Option 2

From a tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 tree	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

From a roof

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 roof	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roof	det
3	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

From a roof, cos he could reach the grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	From	from	ADP	_	3 roof	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 roof	det
3	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 roof	punct
5	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 reach	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 reach	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 reach	aux
8	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 grass	det
10	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reach	could	he	the grass		a roof			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent grass=Theme from roof=Source

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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