Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

What's his sneaky plan then, me mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: sneaky plan

This is test 3 · ★ 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	5 plan	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 plan	cop
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 plan	nmod:poss
4	sneaky	sneaky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 plan	amod
5	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 plan	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 me	punct
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 plan	conj
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 me	flat
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		his sneaky plan			then		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

Get the lion to pull his own teeth out for him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Get	get	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Get	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pull	mark
5	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Get	xcomp
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 teeth	nmod:poss
7	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 teeth	amod
8	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 pull	obj
9	out	out	ADV	_	5 pull	advmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pull	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	imperative	you not said here	the lion					tree rules
2	pull	to-infinitive	the lion not said here	lion's own teeth				for lion; out property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme for he=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Pull the lion's teeth and nails

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pull	pull	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 teeth	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 lion	case
5	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Pull	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 nails	cc
7	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	imperative	you not said here	the lion's teeth and nails					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Theme

Option 3

Trick him into a fight quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Trick	trick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Trick	obj
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 fight	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fight	det
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Trick	obl
6	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	1 Trick	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	imperative	you not said here	him = he				into a fight result; quickly property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Patient into fight=Result

Option 4

Tie up the lion's paws well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Tie	compound:prt
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 paws	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 lion	case
6	paws	paw	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tie	obj
7	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 Tie	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	imperative	you not said here	the lion's paws				well property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent paw=Patient

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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