Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag and the Vine, part 18: beasts are…

the ass goes mental and runs at the cliff, and his driver's pulling his tail like mad, so what's the ass's problem?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ass, driver · What happens: go, run, pull, be · To what, where: cliff, tail, problem

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 148 «Aesop's Fables, The Stag and the Vine, part 18: beasts are tricked, shot, or betrayed, and each fable teaches a lesson» 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 goes	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 runs	cc
6	runs	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 goes	conj
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 cliff	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cliff	det
9	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 runs	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 pulling	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 pulling	cc
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 driver	nmod:poss
13	driver	driver	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulling	nsubj
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pulling	aux
15	pulling	pull	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 goes	advcl
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 tail	nmod:poss
17	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulling	obj
18	like	like	ADP	_	19 mad	case
19	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 pulling	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 problem	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	27 problem	advmod
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	27 problem	obj
23	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 problem	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 ass	det
25	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 problem	nmod:poss
26	's	's	PART	_	25 ass	case
27	problem	problem	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pulling	obl
28	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goes	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	present	the ass			mental property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	run	present	the ass not said here		the cliff		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at cliff=Trajectory
3	pull	present · progressive	ass's driver	ass's tail		like mad	vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Theme
4	is a	present		the ass's problem			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

he wants to jump right off the edge of the cliff and into the sea below him

The tree, 17 words

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 jump	mark
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	right	right	ADV	_	4 jump	advmod
6	off	off	ADP	_	8 edge	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 edge	det
8	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 cliff	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cliff	det
11	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 sea	cc
13	into	into	ADP	_	15 sea	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sea	det
15	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 edge	conj
16	below	below	ADP	_	17 him	case
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 sea	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	jump not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here			the edge of the cliff and the sea below him		right property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off edge=Trajectory

Option 2

he wants a drink of water

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drink	det
4	drink	drink	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wants	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 water	case
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drink	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he	a drink of water					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot drink=Theme

Option 3

he's scared of wolves

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 scared	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 wolves	case
5	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of wolves; scared property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he wants to jump off the edge

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	2 wants	nsubj
2	wants	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 jump	mark
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 wants	xcomp
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 edge	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 edge	det
7	edge	edge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	present	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	jump off not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the edge					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme edge=Trajectory

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