Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

Was the dad a bit sus, then, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: bit sus

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 152 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's daughter by giving up his teeth and claws» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 sus	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dad	det
3	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Was	nsubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 sus	det
5	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sus	compound
6	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 nah	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sus	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		a bit sus					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

Nah, he was a kind man who only wanted his daughter safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 man	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 man	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 man	amod
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 wanted	nsubj
9	only	only	ADV	_	10 wanted	advmod
10	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 man	acl:relcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 daughter	nmod:poss
12	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wanted	obj
13	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a kind man					tree rules
2	want	past	a kind man	man's daughter				safe property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot daughter=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, he was a bit dodgy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 dodgy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dodgy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dodgy	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bit	det
6	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dodgy	obl:unmarked
7	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					a bit obl:unmarked; dodgy property	tree rules

Option 3

Nah, he was just nasty

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 nasty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 nasty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 nasty	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 nasty	advmod
6	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					nasty property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, he was just clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					clever property	tree rules

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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