Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag and the Vine, part 18: beasts are…

the boy's gassing on about how gorgeous he is in the mirror, and his sister's raging, so what does the dad say to them?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, dad · What happens: gas on, be, say · To what, where: mirror · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mirror	nsubj
3	's	's	PART	_	2 boy	case
4	gassing	gas	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 boy	acl
5	on	on	ADP	_	4 gassing	compound:prt
6	about	about	SCONJ	_	8 gorgeous	mark
7	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	8 gorgeous	advmod
8	gorgeous	gorgeous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gassing	ccomp
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 gorgeous	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 mirror	cop
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 mirror	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mirror	det
13	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 raging	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 raging	cc
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 sister	nmod:poss
17	sister	sister	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 raging	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 sister	case
19	raging	raging	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mirror	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 say	punct
21	so	so	ADV	_	26 say	advmod
22	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	26 say	obj
23	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 say	aux
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 dad	det
25	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 say	nsubj
26	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 mirror	parataxis
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 them	case
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 say	obl
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 mirror	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	gas on	gerund	the boy not said here				vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	the boy			the mirror and boy's sister's raging	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	present · do-support	the dad	the mirror and boy's sister's raging	mirror		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to they=Recipient

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

go to bed now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 go	obl
4	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	imperative	you not said here			bed	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

Option 2

stop being so vain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 stop	xcomp
3	so	so	ADV	_	4 vain	advmod
4	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here					vain property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

learn to make good use of the glass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	learn	learn	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	3 make	mark
3	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 learn	xcomp
4	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 use	amod
5	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 make	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 glass	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 glass	det
8	glass	glass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 use	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	learn	imperative	you not said here		vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make	to-infinitive	you not said here	good use of the glass	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset use=Product
3	use			the glass	nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

stop arguing and go and play outside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	arguing	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 stop	xcomp
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 go	cc
4	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stop	conj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 play	cc
6	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 stop	conj
7	outside	outside	ADV	_	6 play	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	argue speech: disagree	gerund	you not said here		vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	go	infinitive	you not said here		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	play	infinitive	you not said here	outside property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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