Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

yo, the wolf acted proper calm around the sheep, so what did the shepherd do when he went to town

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: act, do, go · To what, where: shepherd, town

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 acted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 acted	nsubj
5	acted	act	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 calm	advmod
7	calm	calm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 acted	xcomp
8	around	around	ADP	_	10 sheep	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sheep	det
10	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 calm	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	14 did	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 acted	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 shepherd	det
16	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
17	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 went	aux
18	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	20 went	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 went	nsubj
20	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 acted	conj
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 town	case
22	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	act	past	the wolf			calm property	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	do	past		the shepherd			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=Eventuality
3	go	present · do-support	wolf		town		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to town=Initial_Location

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

left the wolf with the sheep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 left	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 sheep	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past		the wolf				with the sheep	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient with sheep=Theme

Option 2

asked the wolf to mind them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 asked	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 mind	mark
5	mind	mind	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 asked	ccomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mind	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past		the wolf					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent wolf=Recipient clause=Topic
2	mind not said to happen	to-infinitive		them = they					vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

sent the wolf off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sent	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 sent	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send off	past		the wolf					vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme

Option 4

locked the gate behind him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	locked	lock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gate	det
3	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 locked	obj
4	behind	behind	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 locked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lock	past		the gate				behind him = he	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Patient

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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