Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Ain't the timid soldier a proper coward? What did he do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ai · What happens: do

This is test 4 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: Ain't the timid soldier a proper coward?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 coward	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 soldier	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
4	timid	timid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 soldier	amod
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ai	nmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 coward	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 coward	amod
8	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 coward	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Sentence 2: What did he do?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 do	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 do	nsubj
4	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	Ai						vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

He ran away at once, and later returned to shout threats at the Robber who had left

The tree, 17 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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	away	away	ADV	_	2 ran	advmod
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 ran	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 returned	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 returned	cc
8	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 returned	advmod
9	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 shout	mark
11	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 returned	xcomp
12	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shout	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 Robber	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Robber	det
15	Robber	Robber	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 shout	obl
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 left	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 left	aux
18	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 Robber	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run away	past	He			away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at once=Trajectory
2	return	past	He not said here			late property	tree rules
3	shout speech: express	to-infinitive	He not said here	threats	the Robber		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent threat=Topic
4	leave	past · perfect	the Robber				vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He ran off, then came back to boast

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 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 boast	mark
9	boast	boast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	run off	past	He		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	He not said here	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	boast speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

He fled, then came back bragging

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 fled	nsubj
2	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fled	conj
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 came	advmod
7	bragging	brag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 came	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	roles by
1	flee	past	He		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	come back	past	He not said here	then	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	brag speech: other	gerund	He not said here		vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He scarpered first, then strolled back to show off his big talk

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 scarpered	nsubj
2	scarpered	scarper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 scarpered	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 strolled	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 strolled	advmod
6	strolled	stroll	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 scarpered	conj
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 strolled	advmod
8	to	to	PART	_	9 show	mark
9	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 strolled	advcl
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 show	compound:prt
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 talk	nmod:poss
12	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 talk	amod
13	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 show	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	scarper	past	He			first property	tree rules
2	stroll back	participle	He not said here		then		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	show off	to-infinitive	He not said here	his big talk			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent talk=Recipient
4	talk		his = he				nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=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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