Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…
Right, the Cat's tricking the Eagle and the Sow, yeah? What happens to them both?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cat · What happens: trick, happen · To what, where: Eagle
This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 144 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful Ass, a robbed Prophet, and other clever beasts» 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: Right, the Cat's tricking the Eagle and the Sow, yeah?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Right | right | INTJ | _ | 6 tricking | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Right | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cat | det |
| 4 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tricking | nsubj |
| 5 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 tricking | aux |
| 6 | tricking | trick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Eagle | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 tricking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Sow | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sow | det |
| 11 | Sow | Sow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Eagle | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 tricking | punct |
| 13 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 tricking | discourse |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 tricking | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trick | present · progressive | the Cat | the Eagle and the Sow | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eagle=Patient |
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.
Sentence 2: What happens to them both?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 2 happens | nsubj |
| 2 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 them | case |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 happens | obl |
| 5 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 4 them | appos |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 happens | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | present | Eagle | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
The options
Option 1
Both starve
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 starve | nsubj |
| 2 | starve | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | present | Both | tree rules |
Option 2
The Cat gets caught and dies
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Cat | det |
| 2 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | gets | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | aux:pass |
| 4 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 dies | cc |
| 6 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 caught | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | present · passive | the Cat | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | die | present | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
They starve, the Cat eats well
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 starve | nsubj |
| 2 | starve | starve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 eats | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 eats | nsubj |
| 6 | eats | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 starve | conj |
| 7 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 eats | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | starve | present | They | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | eat | present | the Cat | well property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4
They eat, the Cat's full
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 eat | nsubj |
| 2 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 eat | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cat | det |
| 5 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 full | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Cat | case |
| 7 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 eat | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat | present | They | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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