Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Why did the wolf have a go at the fox, innit?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf, you · What happens: have, innit · To what, where: go

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 155 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fools his doctor, and a fox outwits a lion» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 innit	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 go	det
7	go	go	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 fox	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 fox	det
10	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
12	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 innit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · do-support	the wolf	a go				at the fox	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent go=Patient
2	innit	imperative	you not said here						tree rules

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

Pinched his dinner, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pinched	pinch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dinner	nmod:poss
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pinched	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dinner	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	participle		his dinner and innit					vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Old beef between them, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 beef	amod
2	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	between	between	ADP	_	4 them	case
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 beef	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beef	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Wolf was just jealous of the fox and his fancy new job, innit, bruv

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jealous	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 jealous	advmod
4	jealous	jealous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 fox	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fox	det
7	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 job	cc
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 job	nmod:poss
10	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 job	amod
11	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 job	amod
12	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jealous	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 job	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 bruv	punct
16	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 job	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Wolf					of the fox; jealous property	tree rules
2	job		fox						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

They had old beef going back years over a stolen lamb, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beef	amod
4	beef	beef	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 beef	acl
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 going	advmod
7	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 going	obl:unmarked
8	over	over	ADP	_	11 lamb	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lamb	det
10	stolen	steal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 lamb	amod
11	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 going	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lamb	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They	old beef			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beef=Patient
2	go back	gerund	old beef not said here		year	over a stolen lamb and mate	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
3	steal	participle					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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