Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

So why don't her dad just say no, like?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dad · What happens: not say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
2	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
3	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 say	advmod
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 dad	nmod:poss
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 say	advmod
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	8 say	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	8 say	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	her dad						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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

Cos he's skint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 skint	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 skint	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 skint	cop
4	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Dunno, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Dunno	punct
3	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	vocative

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he's scared of the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 scared	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 scared	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					of the lion; scared property	tree rules

Option 4

Cos she's dead keen on him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 keen	case
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keen	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 keen	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 keen	amod
5	keen	keen	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 keen	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	she					cos dead keen; on him = he	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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