Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Why did Hercules blank Plutus, like?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hercules · What happens: blank · To what, where: Plutus

This is test 11 · ★ 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	4 blank	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 blank	aux
3	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blank	nsubj
4	blank	blank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	Plutus	Plutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 blank	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 blank	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	4 blank	obl
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 blank	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blank	past · do-support	Hercules	Plutus					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

Plutus kept company with scoundrels and thieves and was no friend to honest men

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plutus	Plutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 scoundrels	case
5	scoundrels	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 company	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 thieves	cc
7	thieves	thief	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 scoundrels	conj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 friend	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 friend	cop
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 friend	det
11	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 honest	mark
13	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 men	amod
14	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Plutus	company				with scoundrels and thieves	vn sustain-55.6-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent company=Theme man=Attribute
2	is a	past	Plutus not said here	no friend					tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Plutus had cheated Hercules out of his wealth and then ran off laughing, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plutus	Plutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cheated	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	aux
3	cheated	cheat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 cheated	obj
5	out	out	ADP	_	8 wealth	case
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 wealth	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 wealth	nmod:poss
8	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheated	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 ran	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 ran	advmod
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 cheated	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 ran	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 mate	punct
15	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 cheated	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cheat	past · perfect	Plutus	Hercules	Plutus's wealth		mate vocative	vn cheat-10.6.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hercules=Source
2	run off	past	Plutus not said here			then		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	laugh	gerund	Plutus not said here					vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Plutus hung with scoundrels

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plutus	Plutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 hung	nsubj
2	hung	hang	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	with	with	ADP	_	4 scoundrels	case
4	scoundrels	scoundrel	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	past	Plutus					with scoundrels	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

Plutus was a proper thief

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Plutus	Plutus	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 thief	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thief	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 thief	det
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 thief	amod
5	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Plutus	a proper thief					tree rules

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