Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Dude, what was the Miller's whole big mistake?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: be · To what, where: whole big mistake

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mistake	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 mistake	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 mistake	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Miller	det
6	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 mistake	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Miller	case
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mistake	amod
9	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 mistake	amod
10	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Dude and the Miller's whole big mistake	the Miller's whole big mistake					tree rules

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

Listening to his own son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	5 son	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 son	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 son	amod
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Listening	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	listen	gerund						to his own son	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to son=Theme

Option 2

Trying to please the Ass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 please	mark
3	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ass	det
5	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 please	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	please not said to happen	to-infinitive		the Ass					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ass=Experiencer

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Trying to please everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 please	mark
3	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 please	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	please not said to happen	to-infinitive		everyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer

Option 4

Trying to please everyone, including the girls and the Ass and the Son

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 please	mark
3	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Trying	xcomp
4	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 please	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 girls	punct
6	including	including	ADP	_	8 girls	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 girls	det
8	girls	girl	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 everyone	conj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 Ass	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ass	det
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	conj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 Son	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Son	det
14	Son	Son	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 everyone	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	gerund							vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	please not said to happen	to-infinitive		everyone					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everyone=Experiencer

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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