Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…
Lol, what did the Boar do while the Fox was being a clown?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: do, be · To what, where: Boar, clown
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Lol | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Boar | det |
| 6 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 14 clown | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Fox | det |
| 10 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 clown | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 clown | cop |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 clown | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 clown | det |
| 14 | clown | clown | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | advcl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 what | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the Boar | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boar=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | do | present | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is a | past | the Fox | a clown | 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
Snoozing, mate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Snoozing | snooze | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 mate | compound |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Snoozing | punct |
| 3 | mate | mate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | snooze | gerund | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
Still digging holes, innit
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 2 digging | advmod |
| 2 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | holes | hole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 digging | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 innit | punct |
| 5 | innit | innit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 holes | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dig | gerund | holes and innit | still | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=Theme |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
Kept sharpening his tusks, like a boss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | sharpening | sharpen | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Kept | xcomp |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 tusks | nmod:poss |
| 4 | tusks | tusk | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 sharpening | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 boss | punct |
| 6 | like | like | ADP | _ | 8 boss | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 boss | det |
| 8 | boss | boss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kept | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | sharpen | gerund | his tusks | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent tusk=Patient |
Option 4
Watching the Fox, bruv, like a hawk
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fox | det |
| 3 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 bruv | punct |
| 5 | bruv | bruv | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Fox | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hawk | punct |
| 7 | like | like | ADP | _ | 9 hawk | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Watching | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | watch | gerund | the Fox and bruv | like a hawk | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=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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