Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…

that ass was well clever, weren't he?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ass, he · What happens: be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 154 «Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bull, a parrot scolds a cat, a stag and a sick man get their comeuppance» 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ass	det
2	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 clever	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 clever	advmod
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	conj
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 he	advmod
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	that ass					clever, well property	tree rules
2	be	past	he						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he was just too honest, got ripped apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 honest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 honest	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 honest	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 honest	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 honest	advmod
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ripped	csubj:pass
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 honest	punct
9	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ripped	aux:pass
10	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	apart	apart	ADV	_	10 ripped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					honest property	tree rules
2	rip apart	past · passive						apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»

Option 2

nah, he was too greedy, got ripped apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 greedy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 greedy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 greedy	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 greedy	advmod
6	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ripped	punct
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ripped	aux:pass
9	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 greedy	conj
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 ripped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					greedy property	tree rules
2	rip apart	past · passive	he not said here					apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»

Option 3

nah, he was daft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 4

yeah, he was smart, but got ripped apart

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 smart	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 smart	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 smart	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 smart	cop
5	smart	smart	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ripped	punct
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 ripped	cc
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 ripped	aux:pass
9	ripped	rip	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 smart	conj
10	apart	apart	ADV	_	9 ripped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					smart property	tree rules
2	rip apart	past · passive	he not said here					apart property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»

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