Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

Our kid reckons the dad was canny, is that right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kid, dad, that · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 kid	nmod:poss
2	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 reckons	nsubj
3	reckons	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dad	det
5	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 canny	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 canny	cop
7	canny	canny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckons	ccomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 right	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 right	cop
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 right	nsubj
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reckons	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 reckons	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	present	Our kid		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the dad	canny property	tree rules
3	is	present	that	right 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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, pretty sly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sly	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	pretty	pretty	ADV	_	4 sly	advmod
4	sly	sly	ADV	_	root	root

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

Option 2

Nah, just lucky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 lucky	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 lucky	advmod
4	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he was well sly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 well	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 well	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 well	cop
5	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	sly	sly	ADV	_	5 well	advmod

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

Option 4

Yeah, he was really clever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 clever	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 clever	cop
5	really	really	ADV	_	6 clever	advmod
6	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					clever property	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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