Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Blacksmith and His Dog: the lazy dog i…

Dead, the little frog was so ridiculous, puffing and puffing?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dead little frog · What happens: be, puff

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frog	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dead	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frog	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ridiculous	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 ridiculous	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 ridiculous	advmod
8	ridiculous	ridiculous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 puffing	punct
10	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 ridiculous	advcl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 puffing	cc
12	puffing	puff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 puffing	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 ridiculous	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Dead little frog	ridiculous property	tree rules
2	puff	gerund	the Dead little frog not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
3	puff	gerund	the Dead little frog not said here		vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source

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 · ✓ the right answer

She burst trying to look as big as the ox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 burst	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 ox	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ox	det
10	ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 big	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	burst	past	She		tree rules
2	try	gerund	She not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	big property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

She swelled trying to look like a bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swelled	nsubj
2	swelled	swell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 swelled	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 bird	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 bird	det
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	swell	past	She		tree rules
2	try	gerund	She not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	like a bird	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

She jumped away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 jumped	nsubj
2	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 jumped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump away	past	She					away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

She burst trying to look as tall as the cow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 burst	nsubj
2	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	trying	try	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 burst	xcomp
4	to	to	PART	_	5 look	mark
5	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 trying	xcomp
6	as	as	ADV	_	7 tall	advmod
7	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 look	xcomp
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 cow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 cow	det
10	cow	cow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	burst	past	She		tree rules
2	try	gerund	She not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	look not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	tall property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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