Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

ok so the wolf's like "u muddied my water" lol, but the lamb's standing downstream, bro, that's so obvious

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf, that · What happens: be, stand

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 367 «Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excuses to eat a Lamb» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	9 muddied	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	9 muddied	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muddied	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 muddied	cop
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	9 muddied	mark
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	9 muddied	punct
8	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 muddied	nsubj
9	muddied	muddy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 water	nmod:poss
11	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 muddied	obj
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	11 water	punct
13	lol	lol	INTJ	_	11 water	discourse
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 standing	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 standing	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lamb	det
17	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	nmod:poss
18	's	's	PART	_	17 lamb	case
19	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 muddied	advcl
20	downstream	downstream	ADV	_	19 standing	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 bro	punct
22	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 standing	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 obvious	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 obvious	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 obvious	cop
26	so	so	ADV	_	27 obvious	advmod
27	obvious	obvious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 muddied	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	the wolf	muddy property	tree rules
2	stand	gerund	the wolf not said here	downstream property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	that	obvious property	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 · ✓ the right answer

the wolf was upstream the whole time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upstream	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 upstream	cop
4	upstream	upstream	ADV	_	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 time	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 time	amod
7	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 upstream	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wolf				time	upstream property	tree rules

Option 2

the lamb stirred up the mud there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 lamb	det
2	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	stirred	stir	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 lamb	acl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 stirred	compound:prt
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mud	det
6	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stirred	obj
7	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 stirred	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stir up	participle	the lamb not said here	the mud		there			vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mud=Patient

Option 3

wolf was downstream

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	downstream	downstream	ADV	_	2 was	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	wolf					downstream property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the wolf drank from her side too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	nsubj
3	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	6 side	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 side	nmod:poss
6	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drank	obl
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 drank	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the wolf			wolf's side			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from side=Source

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