Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

So what happened once the lion was toothless?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: happen, be

This is test 5 · ★ 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	_	3 happened	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happened	nsubj
3	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	once	once	SCONJ	_	8 toothless	mark
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 toothless	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 toothless	cop
8	toothless	toothless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 happened	advcl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happened	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	past							vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	the lion					toothless property	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

Nothing much

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Nothing	amod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The dad bashed him with a club

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bashed	nsubj
3	bashed	bash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 bashed	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 club	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 club	det
7	club	club	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bashed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bash	past	the dad	him = he				with a club	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with club=Instrument

Option 3

The dad hit him with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dad	det
2	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	nsubj
3	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hit	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	the dad	him = he				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient with stick=Instrument

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 ran	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	He						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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