Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

the wolf's excuses were basically a whole remix of nonsense, mud, lies, brothers, family

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: excuses, wolf · What happens: be, excuse · To what, where: whole remix

This is test 10 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wolf	det
2	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 excuses	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 wolf	case
4	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remix	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 remix	cop
6	basically	basically	ADV	_	9 remix	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 remix	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 remix	amod
9	remix	remix	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 nonsense	case
11	nonsense	nonsense	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remix	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 mud	punct
13	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 remix	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lies	punct
15	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remix	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 brothers	punct
17	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 remix	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 family	punct
19	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 brothers	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the wolf's excuses	a whole remix and mud and lies				of nonsense; basically property	tree rules
2	excuse		the wolf						nom excuse «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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

a bunch of lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 bunch	det
2	bunch	bunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 lies	case
4	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bunch	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a string of made-up excuses

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 string	det
2	string	string	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	7 excuses	case
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 excuses	amod
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 up	punct
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
7	excuses	excuse	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 string	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	participle							vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme

Option 3

mud and brothers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 brothers	cc
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 mud	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

a stream of angry accusations

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 stream	det
2	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 accusations	case
4	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 accusations	amod
5	accusations	accusation	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 stream	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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