Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

how do wolves even get away with this, it's like the forest is a total courtroom with no judge

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolves, it · What happens: get away, be · To what, where: total courtroom

This is test 13 · ★ 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	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 get	advmod
2	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 get	aux
3	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 get	nsubj
4	even	even	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 courtroom	advcl
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 get	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 this	case
8	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 away	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 courtroom	nsubj
11	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 courtroom	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	14 forest	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 forest	det
14	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 courtroom	obl
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 courtroom	cop
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 courtroom	det
17	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 courtroom	amod
18	courtroom	courtroom	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 judge	case
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 judge	det
21	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 courtroom	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get away	present · do-support	wolves					away property	vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	it	a total courtroom				like the forest; with no judge	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 unjust ignore the innocent

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 unjust	det
2	unjust	unjust	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ignore	nsubj
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 innocent	det
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ignore	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	present	the unjust	the innocent					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent innocent=Theme

Option 2

bullies win

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bullies	bully	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 win	nsubj
2	win	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	bullies						vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

the judge favors the wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 judge	det
2	judge	judge	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 favors	nsubj
3	favors	favor	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 favors	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	favor	present	the judge	the wolf					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus

Option 4

wolves lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wolves	wolf	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	wolves						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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