Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Lol, what was the Flea's big plan with the Ox?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: big plan

This is test 12 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	9 plan	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Flea	det
6	Flea	Flea	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Flea	case
8	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 Ox	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ox	det
12	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Flea's big plan				with the Ox	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

Be a farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Be	nsubj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	infinitive	a farmer						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Be a parasite, not work

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 parasite	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 parasite	det
3	parasite	parasite	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 work	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 parasite	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	imperative	you not said here	a parasite					tree rules
2	not work	infinitive	a parasite not said here						vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Be a friend, not a thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 friend	cop
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 friend	det
3	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thief	punct
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 thief	advmod
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 thief	det
7	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 friend	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	imperative	you not said here	a friend and a thief					tree rules

Option 4

Work hard on the farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Work	work	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Work	advmod
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 farm	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 farm	det
5	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Work	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	imperative	you not said here					on the farm; hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on farm=Theme

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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