Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

bruh, what did the kid make the wolf do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, wolf · What happens: do, make · To what, where: wolf

This is test 7 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	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 kid	det
6	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 make	nsubj
7	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wolf	det
9	wolf	wolf	NOUN	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			vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	make	present	the kid	the wolf	tree rules
3	do	infinitive	the wolf 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

dance for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	3 him	case
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 dance	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

play a tune for him to dance

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 tune	det
3	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 play	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tune	nmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 dance	mark
7	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 play	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here	a tune				for him = he	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP PP.predicate»: agent=Agent tune=Theme for he=Eventuality
2	dance	to-infinitive	you not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

pipe a merry tune so he could dance with the other kids all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tune	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 tune	det
3	merry	merry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tune	amod
4	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	so	so	SCONJ	_	8 dance	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dance	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 dance	aux
8	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tune	acl:relcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	12 kids	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kids	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 kids	amod
12	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 dance	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 night	det
14	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dance	could	he	a merry tune not said here			night	with the other kids	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location tune=Theme

Option 4

bring him grass from the meadow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 bring	obj
3	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 meadow	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meadow	det
6	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bring	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	grass	him = he	the meadow			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination grass=Theme

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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