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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?

discoursepunctdetnsubjauxdetobjccdetconjpunctdiscoursepunctrootRightINTJ,PUNCTtheDETCatNOUN'sAUXtrickingVERBtheDETEaglePROPNandCCONJtheDETSowPROPN,PUNCTyeahINTJ?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1RightrightINTJ_6 trickingdiscourse
2,,PUNCT_1 Rightpunct
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 Catdet
4CatcatNOUNNumber=Sing6 trickingnsubj
5'sbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin6 trickingaux
6trickingtrickVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Eagledet
8EagleEaglePROPNNumber=Sing6 trickingobj
9andandCCONJ_11 Sowcc
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art11 Sowdet
11SowSowPROPNNumber=Sing8 Eagleconj
12,,PUNCT_6 trickingpunct
13yeahyeahINTJ_6 trickingdiscourse
14??PUNCT_6 trickingpunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1trickpresent · progressivethe Catthe Eagle and the Sowvn 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?

nsubjcaseoblappospunctrootWhatPRONhappensVERBtoADPthemPRONbothDET?PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhatwhatPRONPronType=Int2 happensnsubj
2happenshappenVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3totoADP_4 themcase
4themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 happensobl
5bothbothDETPronType=Tot4 themappos
6??PUNCT_2 happenspunct
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1happenpresentEaglevn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

Both starve

nsubjrootBothDETstarveVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1BothbothDETPronType=Tot2 starvensubj
2starvestarveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1starvepresentBothtree rules

Option 2

The Cat gets caught and dies

detnsubjaux:passccconjrootTheDETCatNOUNgetsAUXcaughtVERBandCCONJdiesVERB
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 Catdet
2CatcatNOUNNumber=Sing4 caughtnsubj
3getsgetAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 caughtaux:pass
4caughtcatchVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5andandCCONJ_6 diescc
6diesdieVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin4 caughtconj
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1catchpresent · passivethe Catvn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2diepresentvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

They starve, the Cat eats well

nsubjpunctdetnsubjconjadvmodrootTheyPRONstarveVERB,PUNCTtheDETCatNOUNeatsVERBwellADV
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 starvensubj
2starvestarveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_6 eatspunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Catdet
5CatcatNOUNNumber=Sing6 eatsnsubj
6eatseatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin2 starveconj
7wellwellADVDegree=Pos6 eatsadvmod
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1starvepresentTheytree rules
2eatpresentthe Catwell propertyvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

They eat, the Cat's full

nsubjpunctdetnmod:posscaseparataxisrootTheyPRONeatVERB,PUNCTtheDETCatNOUN'sPARTfullADJ
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TheytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs2 eatnsubj
2eateatVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
3,,PUNCT_2 eatpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Catdet
5CatcatNOUNNumber=Sing7 fullnmod:poss
6's'sPART_5 Catcase
7fullfullADJDegree=Pos2 eatparataxis
#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1eatpresentTheyvn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: 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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