Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Man, why did everyone cut the Bat off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Man · What happens: cut off · To what, where: Bat

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Man	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 cut	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	6 cut	nsubj
6	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bat	det
8	Bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	6 cut	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cut	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut off	past · do-support	Man	the Bat					vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector bat=Eventuality

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

He was a coward at heart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 coward	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 coward	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 coward	det
4	coward	coward	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 heart	case
6	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 coward	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a coward		heart			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was a two-faced traitor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 traitor	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 traitor	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 traitor	det
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 faced	nummod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 two	punct
6	faced	faced	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 traitor	amod
7	traitor	traitor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a faced traitor					tree rules

Option 3

He was greedy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 greedy	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 greedy	cop
3	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	He					greedy property	tree rules

Option 4

He was a loud shouter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouter	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shouter	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 shouter	det
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 shouter	amod
5	shouter	shouter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a loud shouter					tree rules

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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