Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Why did the fox go off on his own, like?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox · What happens: go off · To what, where: own

This is test 4 · ★ 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 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 go	compound:prt
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 own	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 own	nmod:poss
9	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 go	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
11	like	like	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past · do-support	the fox			fox's own			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on own=Location

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

Too small, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Too	too	ADV	_	2 small	advmod
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 mate	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 small	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

His share was rubbish, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 share	nmod:poss
2	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbish	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rubbish	cop
4	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rubbish	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	His share	rubbish and mate					tree rules
2	share		His = he						nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Lion robbed him, bruv, proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 robbed	nsubj
2	robbed	rob	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 robbed	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 robbed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 proper	punct
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bruv	amod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rob	past	Lion	him = he				bruv obl	vn cheat-10.6.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Source

Option 4

Dunno, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dunno	Dunno	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bruv	punct
3	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dunno	appos

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

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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