Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Did the Dog reckon the Wolf was a bit rubbish, or what?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dog, Wolf · What happens: reckon, be · To what, where: bit rubbish

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Dog	det
3	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 rubbish	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 rubbish	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 rubbish	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 rubbish	compound
10	rubbish	rubbish	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
12	or	or	CCONJ	_	13 what	cc
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 reckon	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the Dog						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	is a	past	the Wolf	a bit rubbish					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

He was a very bold and noble creature in every way

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 creature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 creature	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 creature	det
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 bold	advmod
5	bold	bold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 noble	cc
7	noble	noble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bold	conj
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 way	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	11 way	det
11	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 creature	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a bold creature		every way			tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

He was a poor creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 creature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creature	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a poor creature					tree rules

Option 3

He was a brave creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 creature	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 creature	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 creature	det
4	brave	brave	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 creature	amod
5	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	a brave creature					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He was the most dangerous animal that the dog had ever seen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 animal	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 animal	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 animal	det
4	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 animal	amod
6	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	nsubj:pass
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
11	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	12 seen	advmod
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 animal	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	He	the dangerous animal					tree rules
2	see	past · perfect · passive		the dog			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus

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