Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Sick, what was the Wolf really scared of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: sick, be

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Sick	sick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 scared	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scared	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 scared	nsubj
7	really	really	ADV	_	8 scared	advmod
8	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sick	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	8 scared	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Sick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sick	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past						scared property	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 · ← Mova's choice

The master of the dog who guarded the whole flock

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 master	det
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guarded	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 dog	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 master	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 guarded	nsubj
7	guarded	guard	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 flock	det
9	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 flock	amod
10	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 guarded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	guard	past	the master of the dog	the whole flock					vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Beneficiary

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Dog's master

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 master	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Dog	case
4	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Jupiter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

The farmer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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