Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…
What's the moral, bruv, don't be a muppet in love?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: moral · What happens: be, do, not be · To what, where: muppet, love
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 What | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 moral | det |
| 4 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 What | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 bruv | punct |
| 6 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 moral | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 What | xcomp |
| 9 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 muppet | advmod |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 muppet | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 muppet | det |
| 12 | muppet | muppet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 do | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 love | case |
| 14 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 muppet | nmod |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 What | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the moral and bruv | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | do | infinitive | the moral and bruv not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | not is a | infinitive | a muppet | love | 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
Love makes you daft
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | daft | daft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 makes | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Love | you | daft property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset you=Product |
Option 2
Love makes you a mug
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | nsubj |
| 2 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 makes | obj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mug | det |
| 5 | mug | mug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 makes | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present | Love | a mug | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary mug=Product |
Option 3
Be nice, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 2 nice | cop |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 mate | amod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 nice | punct |
| 4 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | infinitive | nice property | tree rules |
Option 4
Dads always win, bruv
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dads | dad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 win | nsubj |
| 2 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 3 win | advmod |
| 3 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 win | vocative |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | present | Dads | bruv vocative; always property | vn succeed-74-2 «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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