Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…
The Ass played lame and the Wolf tried to help him out, what a plonker?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ass, Wolf · What happens: play, try, help out · To what, where: lame, Wolf
This is test 8 · ★ 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 Ass | det |
| 2 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 played | nsubj |
| 3 | played | play | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | lame | lame | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 played | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 tried | cc |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 tried | nsubj |
| 8 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 played | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 help | mark |
| 10 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 tried | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 help | obj |
| 12 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 help | compound:prt |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 plonker | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 plonker | advmod |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 plonker | det |
| 16 | plonker | plonker | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 help | obl |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 played | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | past | the Ass | lame | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lame=Theme | ||||
| 2 | try | past | the Wolf | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | help out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Wolf not said here | Wolf | a plonker obl | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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
Yeah, the Wolf got kicked right in the mouth and lost all his teeth
The tree, 14 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kicked | aux:pass |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 10 mouth | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouth | det |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 lost | cc |
| 12 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kicked | conj |
| 13 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 teeth | det:predet |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 15 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 lost | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past · passive | the Wolf | the mouth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in mouth=Location | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Wolf's teeth | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Eventuality |
Option 2
Nah, the Wolf got a thorn out of his own foot and the Ass ran off
The tree, 16 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 got | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 thorn | det |
| 7 | thorn | thorn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 foot | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 foot | nmod:poss |
| 11 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 foot | amod |
| 12 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ran | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ass | det |
| 15 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ran | nsubj |
| 16 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 ran | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Wolf | a thorn | Wolf's own foot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thorn=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | run off | past | the Ass | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Yeah, the Wolf got kicked right in the mouth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kicked | aux:pass |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | right | right | ADV | _ | 6 kicked | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 mouth | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mouth | det |
| 10 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past · passive | the Wolf | the mouth | right property | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in mouth=Location |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
Yeah, the Wolf got kicked in the teeth
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 kicked | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Wolf | det |
| 4 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 kicked | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 kicked | aux:pass |
| 6 | kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 teeth | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 teeth | det |
| 9 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | past · passive | the Wolf | the teeth | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in tooth=Location |
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