Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

Did the lion fall for it, or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: fall

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 fall	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	nsubj
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fall	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 what	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 fall	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fall	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past · do-support	the lion					for it	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for it=Theme

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 thought about it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he					about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said yes straight off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 off	advmod
7	off	off	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he					off property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 3

Yeah, and he even thanked the dad for the clever idea and left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 thanked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 thanked	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 thanked	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 thanked	nsubj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 thanked	advmod
6	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dad	det
8	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 idea	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 idea	det
11	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 idea	amod
12	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 thanked	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 left	cc
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 idea	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	he		the dad			for the clever idea	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent dad=Theme for idea=Attribute
2	leave	participle	he not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nah, he saw through it straight away and roared at the dad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 saw	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	through	through	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	obl
7	straight	straight	ADV	_	8 away	advmod
8	away	away	ADV	_	4 saw	advmod
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 roared	cc
10	roared	roar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 dad	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dad	det
13	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 roared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	he			it		away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	roar	past	he not said here					at the dad	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at dad=Location

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