Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Nah, what did the Wolf make the Boy do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wolf, Boy · What happens: do, make · To what, where: Boy

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Boy	det
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 make	obj
10	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	make	present	the Wolf	the Boy	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	the Boy not said here		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Say three true things that the Wolf could not argue with at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 things	nummod
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Say	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 argue	obj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Wolf	det
7	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 argue	nsubj
8	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 argue	aux
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 argue	advmod
10	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 things	acl:relcl
11	with	with	ADP	_	10 argue	obl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	1 Say	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	three true things		all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	not argue speech: disagree	could	the Wolf	three true things					vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent that=Topic

Option 2

Sing three happy songs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 songs	nummod
3	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 songs	amod
4	songs	song	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Sing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here	three happy songs					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location song=Theme

Option 3

Tell three big lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 lies	nummod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lies	amod
4	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tell	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	three big lies					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lie=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Say three true things

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 things	nummod
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	three true things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic

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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