Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

Those dogs chewing a lion's skin, bare funny, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dogs · What happens: chew · To what, where: skin

This is test 6 · ★ of lesson 153 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey is carried ashore on a dolphin's back, then lies about his family and drowns.» 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	Those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	2 dogs	det
2	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 funny	nsubj
3	chewing	chew	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 dogs	acl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 lion	det
5	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 skin	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 lion	case
7	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chewing	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 funny	punct
9	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 funny	amod
10	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 funny	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	10 funny	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 funny	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund	that dogs not said here	a lion's skin					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the fox said real lions have sharper claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lions	amod
7	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 claws	amod
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	real lions	sharper claws					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent claw=Patient

Option 2

Nah, the dogs were chewing a bear skin the hunter left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 chewing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dogs	det
4	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chewing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 chewing	aux
6	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 skin	det
8	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 skin	compound
9	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chewing	obj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 hunter	det
11	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chewing	obj
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 hunter	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past · progressive	the dogs	a bear skin					tree rules
2	leave	participle		the hunter not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the fox said real lions have sharper teeth and claws

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lions	amod
7	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	nsubj
8	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	sharper	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 teeth	amod
10	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 claws	cc
12	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 teeth	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	present	real lions	sharper teeth and claws					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tooth=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, the fox was right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 right	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the fox					right property	tree rules

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