Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Doctor, part 25: a sick man fool…

What did the lion do to the wolf, proper?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lion · What happens: do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 do	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 do	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	nsubj
5	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wolf	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wolf	det
8	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 do	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 proper	punct
10	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 wolf	amod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the lion					to the wolf	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 · ✓ the right answer

Struck him dead, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Struck	obj
3	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mate	amod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 dead	punct
5	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Struck	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	strike	past		him = he					vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent he=Patient mate=Result

Option 2

Chased him off, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Chased	obj
3	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chased	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bruv	punct
5	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	past		him = he				bruv obl	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Sent him away, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sent	obj
3	away	away	ADV	_	1 Sent	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 innit	punct
5	innit	innit	INTJ	_	1 Sent	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past		him = he				away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Ate him, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Ate	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ate	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ate	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past		him = he				mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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