Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

Wot did the fox say the lion needed for his cure?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wot, lion · What happens: say, need · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Wot	Wot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	nsubj
8	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	ccomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 cure	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 cure	nmod:poss
11	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 needed	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Wot						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	need	past	the lion					for lion's cure	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

Blood of a fox, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 fox	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blood	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Blood	conj

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

Option 2

Skin off a wolf and his tail too, proper gross, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 wolf	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	nmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 tail	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 tail	nmod:poss
7	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	conj
8	too	too	ADV	_	7 tail	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gross	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 gross	amod
11	gross	gross	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	conj

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

Option 3

Hide off a wolf that's been dead for a week, mate, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hide	hide	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 Hide	compound:prt
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 dead	nsubj
6	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dead	cop
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 dead	cop
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 wolf	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 week	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 week	det
11	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hide	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mate	punct
13	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 week	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 week	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide off	imperative	you not said here	a wolf			week		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Patient
2	is	present	a wolf					dead property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Skin off a wolf, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	4 wolf	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bruv	punct
6	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	conj

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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