Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

wait, the wolf said the lamb lied last year, and she's like "i wasn't even born," that's a total flex

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf, lamb, that · What happens: wait, say, lie, not be, be · To what, where: lamb, total flex · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lamb	det
7	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lied	nsubj
8	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 said	ccomp
9	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 year	amod
10	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lied	obl:unmarked
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 born	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 born	cc
13	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 born	nsubj:pass
14	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 born	cop
15	like	like	SCONJ	_	21 born	mark
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 born	punct
17	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 born	nsubj:pass
18	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 born	aux:pass
19	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 born	advmod
20	even	even	ADV	_	21 born	advmod
21	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 wait	advcl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 flex	punct
23	"	"	PUNCT	_	28 flex	punct
24	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	28 flex	nsubj
25	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 flex	cop
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 flex	det
27	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 flex	amod
28	flex	flex	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here				vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	the wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lie	past	the lamb		year		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not is in a quote	present · passive		lamb		bear property	tree rules
5	is a	present	that	a total flex			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

she was born last spring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 spring	amod
5	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		she			spring		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

she is a liar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 liar	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 liar	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 liar	det
4	liar	liar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	she	a liar					tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was born this year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 born	aux:pass
3	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 year	det
5	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 born	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bear	past · passive		she			year		vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

she was never born

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 born	nsubj:pass
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 born	aux:pass
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 born	advmod
4	born	bear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not bear	past · passive		she					vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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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