Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…

Bruv, how did the Raven's weed diet go?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: weed diet · What happens: go

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 go	punct
3	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Raven	det
6	Raven	Raven	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 diet	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Raven	case
8	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 diet	compound
9	diet	diet	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 go	nsubj
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Bruv	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Raven's weed diet						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

He ate loads of weed and got fat and happy, then he went off swimming

The tree, 15 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 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 weed	case
5	weed	weed	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loads	nmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 got	cc
7	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
8	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 got	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 happy	cc
10	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fat	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 went	punct
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	14 went	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 went	nsubj
14	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 went	compound:prt
16	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	He	loads of weed			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Patient
2	get	past	He not said here			fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	go off	past	he	swimming	then		vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Got him fat, then he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Got	obj
3	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Got	xcomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fine	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fine	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 fine	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 fine	cop
8	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Got	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		him = he				fat property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
2	is	past	he				then	fine property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Made him skinny, then he snuffed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 snuffed	punct
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 snuffed	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snuffed	nsubj
7	snuffed	snuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Made	conj
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 snuffed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		skinny	him = he				vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary skinny=Product
2	snuff	past	he	skinny			then		tree rules

Option 4

Made him skinny at first, then he got better and flew off to the lake again

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Made	obj
3	skinny	skinny	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Made	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	1 Made	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 got	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Made	conj
10	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 got	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 flew	cc
12	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Made	conj
13	off	off	ADP	_	12 flew	compound:prt
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 lake	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 lake	det
16	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 flew	obl
17	again	again	ADV	_	12 flew	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	make	past		skinny	him = he			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary skinny=Product
2	get	past	he			then	good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	fly off	past				again	to the lake result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to lake=Result

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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