Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion in Love: a lion wins a cottager's…

So the lion lost the lot, like his teeth and nails?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: lose · To what, where: lot

This is test 9 · ★ 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	_	4 lost	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	nsubj
4	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lot	det
6	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lost	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 teeth	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 teeth	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 teeth	nmod:poss
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 lost	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 nails	cc
12	nails	nail	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 teeth	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 lost	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	the lion	the lot				like lion's teeth and nails	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lot=Eventuality

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

Nah, he kept most of his claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	4 kept	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 claws	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 claws	nmod:poss
8	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 most	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	most of his claws					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent most=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, every bit of his bite

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bit	punct
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 bit	det
4	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 bite	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 bite	nmod:poss
7	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite		his = he						nom bite «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

Nah, he kept his claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 claws	nmod:poss
6	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	his claws					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, all his fight gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fight	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 fight	det:predet
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 fight	nmod:poss
5	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fight	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	participle		his fight not said here					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	fight		his = he						nom fight «act transitive»: poss=agent

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