Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog i…

Mate, that story about Hercules was a proper moral, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: proper moral

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 141 «Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog is fed only when the work stops» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 moral	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 story	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 story	det
4	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Mate	conj
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 Hercules	case
6	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 story	nmod
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 moral	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 moral	det
9	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 moral	amod
10	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 moral	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 moral	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Mate and that story about Hercules	a proper moral					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive							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

Work hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Work	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	imperative	you not said here					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Heaven helps those who help themselves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 helps	nsubj
2	helps	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 helps	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 help	nsubj
5	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 those	acl:relcl
6	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Heaven	those					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Beneficiary
2	help	present		themselves = they					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent themselves=Beneficiary

Option 3

Wealth comes to the quiet and humble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 comes	nsubj
2	comes	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 quiet	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 quiet	det
5	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 comes	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 humble	cc
7	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 quiet	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	present	Wealth			the quiet			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to quiet=Initial_Location

Option 4

Fortune favours those who wait patiently

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fortune	fortune	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 favours	nsubj
2	favours	favour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 favours	obj
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 wait	nsubj
5	wait	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 those	acl:relcl
6	patiently	patiently	ADV	_	5 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	favour	present	Fortune	those					tree rules
2	wait	present						patiently property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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