Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Wagwan, why did the Wolf give up on that cottage?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wagwan · What happens: give up · To what, where: cottage

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Wagwan	Wagwan	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Wagwan	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 give	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 give	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 give	nsubj
7	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 give	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 cottage	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 cottage	det
11	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 give	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past · do-support	Wagwan			that cottage			vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=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

Mum was just pretending, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretending	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pretending	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 pretending	advmod
4	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretending	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · progressive	Mum					mate vocative	tree rules

Option 2

Mum was only faking it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 faking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 faking	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 faking	advmod
4	faking	fake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 faking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	past · progressive	Mum	it					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

Mum was only bluffing about the whole thing, and he could tell right away

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bluffing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bluffing	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bluffing	advmod
4	bluffing	bluff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	8 thing	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 thing	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 thing	amod
8	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bluffing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 tell	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 tell	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 tell	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 tell	aux
13	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 bluffing	conj
14	right	right	ADV	_	15 away	advmod
15	away	away	ADV	_	13 tell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bluff	past · progressive	Mum					about the whole thing	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	tell speech: assert	could	he					away property	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Mum was only bluffing about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bluffing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bluffing	aux
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 bluffing	advmod
4	bluffing	bluff	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bluffing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bluff	past · progressive	Mum					about it	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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