Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…

mad, what did the cat say to the parrot first?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: cat · What happens: say · To what, where: parrot · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cat	det
6	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 mad	conj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 parrot	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 parrot	det
10	parrot	parrot	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	obl
11	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	7 say	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the cat		the parrot			first property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to parrot=Recipient

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

what you doing in my house

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 doing	obj
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 doing	nsubj
3	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 house	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 house	nmod:poss
6	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 doing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	gerund	you			my house			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

Option 2

who are you, and why you here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 who	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 who	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 who	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 why	cc
6	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 who	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 who	nsubj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	1 who	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	you			here			tree rules

Option 3

shut up, bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	shut	shut	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 shut	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bird	punct
4	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 shut	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shut up	imperative	you not said here					bird vocative	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

who are you, and where you from

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	who	who	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 who	cop
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 who	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 where	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 where	cc
6	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	1 who	conj
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	1 who	nsubj
8	from	from	ADP	_	1 who	case

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	you						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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