Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…
Mate, why did the Ass start braying all proud?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mate · What happens: bray · To what, where: proud
This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 366 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a sly Fox plots to trap his foolish Ass friend in a pit for a hungry 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 | Mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 braying | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 braying | punct |
| 3 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 braying | advmod |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 braying | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 start | det |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 start | compound |
| 7 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 braying | nsubj |
| 8 | braying | bray | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 proud | det |
| 10 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 braying | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 8 braying | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bray | past · do-support | Mate | all proud | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proud=Topic |
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
Bows, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 innit | punct |
| 3 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Bows | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
Cos he's proud, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cos | cos | SCONJ | _ | 4 proud | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proud | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 proud | cop |
| 4 | proud | proud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 proud | punct |
| 6 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 4 proud | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | he | proud property | tree rules |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
He reckoned the bows were for him, innit
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 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 bows | det |
| 4 | bows | bow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 reckoned | obj |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 him | cop |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 bows | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 innit | punct |
| 9 | innit | innit | INTJ | _ | 2 reckoned | discourse |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | He | the bows | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent bow=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | is | past | for him = he | tree rules |
Option 4
He reckoned the Image was his own, mate
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 reckoned | nsubj |
| 2 | reckoned | reckon | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Image | det |
| 4 | Image | Image | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 own | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 own | cop |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 reckoned | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 mate | punct |
| 9 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reckoned | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reckon | past | He | vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | past | the Image | own property | tree rules |
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