Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

The Lion ran off from the Cock's crow, right, and the Ass chased him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion, Ass · What happens: run off, chase · To what, where: Lion

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 146 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight short animal tales about greed, pride, and bad company» 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Lion	det
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 ran	nsubj
3	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 ran	compound:prt
5	from	from	ADP	_	9 crow	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cock	det
7	Cock	Cock	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 crow	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Cock	case
9	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ran	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	3 ran	discourse
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 chased	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 chased	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Ass	det
15	Ass	Ass	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 chased	nsubj
16	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ran	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 chased	obj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 ran	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the Lion					from the Cock's crow	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from crow=Trajectory
2	chase	past	the Ass	Lion					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, then the Lion turned round and munched him right up, mate, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 turned	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 munched	cc
9	munched	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 munched	obj
11	right	right	ADV	_	12 up	advmod
12	up	up	ADV	_	9 munched	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mate	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the Lion				then	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	munch	past	the Lion not said here	Lion					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, then the Lion turned round and munched him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 turned	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 munched	cc
9	munched	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 munched	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the Lion				then	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	munch	past	the Lion not said here	Lion					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, then the Lion turned round and chased him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 turned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turned	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 turned	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Lion	det
5	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	round	round	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 chased	cc
9	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 turned	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 chased	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn round	past	the Lion				then	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	chase	past	the Lion not said here	Lion					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Nah, the Lion just laughed and then turned round and munched the Cock for his crowing, mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 laughed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Lion	det
4	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 laughed	nsubj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 laughed	advmod
6	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 turned	cc
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 turned	advmod
9	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
10	round	round	ADV	_	9 turned	advmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 munched	cc
12	munched	munch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 laughed	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cock	det
14	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 munched	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 crowing	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 crowing	nmod:poss
17	crowing	crowing	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 munched	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 mate	punct
19	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 crowing	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	past	the Lion				vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	turn round	past	the Lion not said here		then	round property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
3	munch	past	the Lion not said here	the Cock		for Lion's crowing and mate	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient
4	crow		Lion				nom crowing «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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