Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

bro, what kinda job did the wolf say was his?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: job, bro · What happens: do, say, be · To what, where: bro, job · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 did	obj
4	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 job	advmod
5	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	nsubj
6	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 bro	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 did	obj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 his	cop
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	job	bro	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	present	bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past		job	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 · ✓ the right answer

a butcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 butcher	det
2	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

a baker

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 baker	det
2	baker	baker	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

a tailor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 tailor	det
2	tailor	tailor	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a potter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 potter	det
2	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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