Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Mate, how did the Rich Man get his peace from the Tanner?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rich Man, Man · What happens: get, pacify · To what, where: Mate, Tanner

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» 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	8 get	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 get	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 get	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Rich	Rich	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Man	compound
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	nsubj
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 peace	nmod:poss
10	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 Tanner	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Tanner	det
13	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past · do-support	the Rich Man	Mate		the Tanner			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent peace=Theme from tanner=Source
2	pacify		Man						nom peace «state transitive»: poss=agent

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 grew tired of moaning

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	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grew	xcomp
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	5 moaning	mark
5	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	He					tired property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	moan	gerund	He not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

He moved away

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 moved	nsubj
2	moved	move	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 moved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	move away	past	He					away property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He got used to the pong

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	3 used	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 used	aux:pass
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 pong	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pong	det
6	pong	pong	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 used	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	use	past · passive		He				to the pong	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

He left town

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 left	nsubj
2	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 left	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	He	town					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme

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