Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Did the Fox lose his tail, or was he just being a tool?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: lose, be · To what, where: tail, tool

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lose	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	nsubj
4	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 tail	nmod:poss
6	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tool	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 tool	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 tool	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tool	nsubj
11	just	just	ADV	_	14 tool	advmod
12	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 tool	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 tool	det
14	tool	tool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lose	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lose	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past · do-support	the Fox	Fox's tail					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Eventuality
2	is a	past	Fox	a tool					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 lost it in a fight, then wanted others cut

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 fight	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 fight	det
6	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 wanted	advmod
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	obj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	past	He	it	a fight		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	want	past	He not said here	others		then	tree rules
3	cut not said to happen	participle	others not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

He grew it back, then wanted others cut

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 grew	nsubj
2	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grew	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 grew	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wanted	punct
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 wanted	advmod
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 grew	conj
8	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wanted	obj
9	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 others	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	grow back	past	He	it		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme
2	want	past	He not said here	others	then	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=Theme
3	cut	participle		others not said here		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

Option 3

He lost it in a trap set by the farmers, and then he wanted the other foxes to cut theirs off too

The tree, 22 words

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
7	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 trap	acl
8	by	by	ADP	_	10 farmers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmers	det
10	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 set	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 wanted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 wanted	cc
13	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 wanted	advmod
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 wanted	nsubj
15	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 foxes	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 foxes	amod
18	foxes	fox	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 wanted	obj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 cut	mark
20	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 wanted	xcomp
21	theirs	their	PRON	Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cut	obj
22	off	off	ADP	_	20 cut	compound:prt
23	too	too	ADV	_	20 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	He	it	a trap			vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	set	participle		a trap not said here			by the farmers	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by farmer=Destination
3	want	past	he	the other foxes		then		tree rules
4	cut off not said to happen	to-infinitive	the other foxes not said here	foxes = fox				vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector their=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He lost it in a trap, then wanted others cut

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 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lost	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 trap	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trap	det
6	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 wanted	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 wanted	advmod
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 lost	conj
10	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 wanted	obj
11	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	lose	past	He	it	a trap		vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality
2	want	past	He not said here	others		then	tree rules
3	cut not said to happen	participle	others not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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