Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wily Lion, part 24: a lion tricks a bu…
sick mate made fake oxen out of candle fat, yeah?
Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sick mate · What happens: make · To what, where: fake oxen, candle fat
This is test 9 · ★ 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 | sick | sick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 mate | amod |
| 2 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fake | fake | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 oxen | amod |
| 5 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 fat | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 fat | case |
| 8 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fat | compound |
| 9 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 11 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 3 made | discourse |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | sick mate | fake oxen | candle fat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ox=Product |
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 · ✓ the right answer
yeah, a hundred tallow oxen for the gods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 oxen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 oxen | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 oxen | nummod |
| 5 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oxen | compound |
| 6 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gods | det |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oxen | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
yeah, he made a hundred tallow oxen for the gods and then he lied to them all, innit
The tree, 18 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 made | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 made | nsubj |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 oxen | det |
| 6 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 oxen | nummod |
| 7 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 oxen | compound |
| 8 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 gods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gods | det |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 oxen | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 lied | cc |
| 13 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 lied | advmod |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lied | nsubj |
| 15 | lied | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 them | case |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lied | obl |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 innit | punct |
| 20 | innit | innit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | he | a hundred tallow oxen | for the gods | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent ox=Product for god=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | lie | past | he | gods = god | then | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | innit | infinitive | he not said here | tree rules |
Option 3 · ← Mova's choice
yeah, a hundred tallow oxen for the gods, but he was dead cheeky about it and used real candle fat, mate
The tree, 21 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 oxen | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 oxen | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 oxen | nummod |
| 5 | tallow | tallow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 oxen | compound |
| 6 | oxen | ox | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gods | det |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 oxen | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 cheeky | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 cheeky | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cheeky | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheeky | cop |
| 14 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 cheeky | amod |
| 15 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 oxen | parataxis |
| 16 | about | about | ADP | _ | 17 it | case |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 cheeky | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 used | cc |
| 19 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 cheeky | conj |
| 20 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 fat | amod |
| 21 | candle | candle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fat | compound |
| 22 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 used | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 mate | punct |
| 24 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 fat | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | about it; cheeky property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | use | past | he not said here | real candle fat and mate | vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fat=Patient |
Option 4
yeah, a hundred wax horses for the gods
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 horses | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 horses | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 hundred | det |
| 4 | hundred | hundred | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 horses | nummod |
| 5 | wax | wax | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 horses | compound |
| 6 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 gods | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gods | det |
| 9 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 horses | nmod |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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