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Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…

Bruh, the Prophet's gutted, his house is nicked. How's he acting, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: house · What happens: gut, nick, act · To what, where: house

This is test 3 · ★ 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: Bruh, the Prophet's gutted, his house is nicked.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	6 gutted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Prophet	det
4	Prophet	Prophet	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 gutted	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Prophet	case
6	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nicked	punct
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 house	nmod:poss
9	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 nicked	nsubj:pass
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 nicked	aux:pass
11	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 gutted	conj
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 gutted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle							vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	nick	present · passive		his house					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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: How's he acting, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 acting	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 acting	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 acting	nsubj
4	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 acting	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 acting	discourse
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	present · progressive	house						vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Crying his eyes out, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Crying	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 bruv	compound
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 eyes	nmod:poss
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Crying	obj
4	out	out	ADV	_	1 Crying	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Crying	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cry out speech: express	gerund		his eyes				out property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Topic

Option 2

He's laughing

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 laughing	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 laughing	aux
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	present · progressive	He						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Sitting quiet, sipping tea

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sitting	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sipping	punct
4	sipping	sip	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Sitting	advcl
5	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sipping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund						quiet property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sip	gerund		tea					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tea=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Going mental, pulling his hair

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 pulling	csubj
2	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Going	xcomp
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pulling	punct
4	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hair	nmod:poss
6	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pulling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund						mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	pull	gerund	Going	his hair					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Theme

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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