Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Ngl, why did the Wolf get smoked by a Lion, like??

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion · What happens: smoke · To what, where: Ngl

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smoked	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 smoked	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 smoked	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wolf	det
6	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smoked	nsubj
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 smoked	aux:pass
8	smoked	smoke	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 Lion	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Lion	det
11	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 smoked	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 like	punct
13	like	like	ADP	_	8 smoked	obl
14	??	??	PUNCT	_	8 smoked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smoke	past · passive · do-support	a Lion	Ngl					vn eat-39.1-1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Source

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 got cocky looking at his big shadow

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 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	cocky	cocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
4	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 got	advcl
5	at	at	ADP	_	8 shadow	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 shadow	nmod:poss
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 shadow	amod
8	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 looking	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	cocky property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	look	gerund	he not said here	at his big shadow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at shadow=Theme
3	shadow		his = he		nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

his proud shadow made him stop and look at himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 shadow	nmod:poss
2	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 shadow	amod
3	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 look	cc
8	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stop	conj
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 himself	case
10	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 look	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	his proud shadow	him = he		tree rules
2	stop	infinitive	him = he not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	look	infinitive	him = he not said here		at shadow	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at himself=Theme
4	shadow		his = he			nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3

he was proud of himself

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 proud	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 proud	cop
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 proud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					of himself = he; proud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

his shadow made him cocky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 shadow	nmod:poss
2	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 made	obj
5	cocky	cocky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	his shadow	him = he				cocky property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	shadow		his = he						nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent

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