Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Ass, part 14: a boastful…
The Wolf's all "What more do you want?" Is he being fair, mate?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, he · What happens: want, be
This is test 9 · ★ 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: The Wolf's all "What more do you want?"
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 all | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Wolf | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | root | root |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 6 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 want | obj |
| 7 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 What | amod |
| 8 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 want | aux |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 want | nsubj |
| 10 | want | want | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 all | nmod |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| 12 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 want | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme |
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: Is he being fair, mate?
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 fair | cop |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 fair | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 fair | cop |
| 4 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 mate | punct |
| 6 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fair | vocative |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 fair | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | mate vocative; fair property | tree rules |
The options
Option 1 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, he's being fair and kind
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 fair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fair | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 fair | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 fair | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fair | cop |
| 6 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 kind | cc |
| 8 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fair | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | fair property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he's being cheeky and well mean
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cheeky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheeky | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 6 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 mean | cc |
| 8 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 mean | advmod |
| 9 | mean | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | cheeky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | mean | present | he not said here | well property | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
Nah, he's being cheeky and rude
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 cheeky | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cheeky | nsubj |
| 4 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cheeky | cop |
| 6 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 rude | cc |
| 8 | rude | rude | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 cheeky | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | cheeky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
Yeah, fair
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 fair | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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