Test 7 · ★ · The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dan…

Why did the Wolf feel like a right muppet, then?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Wolf · What happens: feel

This is test 7 · ★ of lesson 362 «The Æsop for Children, The Wolf and the Kid: a kid who dances for a wolf is saved by the Shepherd Dogs» 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 feel	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 feel	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Wolf	det
4	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 feel	nsubj
5	feel	feel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	like	like	ADP	_	9 muppet	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 muppet	det
8	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muppet	amod
9	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feel	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 feel	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 feel	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · do-support	the Wolf				then	like a right muppet	vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V S»: agent=Agent like muppet=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

He'd swapped his butcher's trade for a tune

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	3 swapped	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 swapped	aux
3	swapped	swap	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 butcher	nmod:poss
5	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trade	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 butcher	case
7	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 tune	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 tune	det
10	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past · perfect	He	his butcher's trade				for a tune	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent trade=Theme for tune=Co-Theme
2	trade		his butcher						nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

He'd gone and swapped his proper butcher's trade for a daft little tune on a pipe

The tree, 18 words

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	2 'd	nsubj
2	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 'd	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 swapped	cc
5	swapped	swap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 'd	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 butcher	nmod:poss
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 butcher	amod
8	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 trade	nmod:poss
9	's	's	PART	_	8 butcher	case
10	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swapped	obj
11	for	for	ADP	_	15 tune	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 tune	det
13	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tune	amod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 tune	amod
15	tune	tune	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swapped	obl
16	on	on	ADP	_	18 pipe	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 pipe	det
18	pipe	pipe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tune	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swap	past		his proper butcher's trade				for a daft little tune on a pipe	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent trade=Theme for tune=Co-Theme
2	trade		his proper butcher						nom trade «act transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

He'd given up eating for a dull song

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	3 given	nsubj:pass
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 given	aux
3	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 given	compound:prt
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 given	advcl
6	for	for	ADP	_	9 song	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 song	det
8	dull	dull	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 song	amod
9	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would · passive		He					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Source
2	eat	gerund						for a dull song	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

He'd let a tiny Kid make him play music

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	3 let	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 let	aux
3	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Kid	det
5	tiny	tiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Kid	amod
6	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 let	obj
7	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 let	xcomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 make	obj
9	play	play	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 make	xcomp
10	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 play	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	let	would	He	a tiny Kid	tree rules
2	make	infinitive	a tiny Kid not said here	Kid	tree rules
3	play	infinitive	Kid not said here	music	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent music=Theme

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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