Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

fr, the wolf wasn't even gonna pretend, he's like "i'm not getting talked out of my breakfast"

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: fr · What happens: not be · To what, where: he, breakfast · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pretend	nsubj:outer
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 wolf	det
4	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 pretend	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 pretend	cop
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 pretend	advmod
7	even	even	ADV	_	9 pretend	advmod
8	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	9 pretend	dep
9	pretend	pretend	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 talked	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 talked	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 talked	cop
13	like	like	SCONJ	_	19 talked	mark
14	"	"	PUNCT	_	19 talked	punct
15	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 talked	nsubj
16	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 talked	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 talked	advmod
18	getting	get	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 talked	aux:pass
19	talked	talk	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 pretend	parataxis
20	out	out	ADP	_	23 breakfast	case
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 breakfast	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 breakfast	nmod:poss
23	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 talked	obl
24	"	"	PUNCT	_	23 breakfast	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	past	fr					pretend property	tree rules
2	not is in a quote	present · progressive · passive		he		my breakfast		talk 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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he refused to listen to reason

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 reason	case
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not listen	to-infinitive	he not said here					to reason	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme

Option 2

he refused to listen to any reason and insisted that he would eat her

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 reason	case
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 reason	det
7	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 insisted	cc
9	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 refused	conj
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 eat	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	nsubj
12	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 eat	aux
13	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 insisted	advcl
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not listen	to-infinitive	he not said here		to any reason	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme
3	insist speech: other	past	he not said here			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	eat	would	he	her = she		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

Option 3

he insisted on a fair trial

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 insisted	nsubj
2	insisted	insist	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	6 trial	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trial	det
5	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trial	amod
6	trial	trial	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insisted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insist speech: other	past	he			a fair trial			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he refused to listen to reason, because he had already decided to eat her anyway

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 listen	mark
4	listen	listen	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 reason	case
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 listen	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 decided	punct
8	because	because	SCONJ	_	12 decided	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 decided	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 decided	aux
11	already	already	ADV	_	12 decided	advmod
12	decided	decide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 refused	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 eat	mark
14	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decided	xcomp
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 eat	obj
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	14 eat	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	he			vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not listen	to-infinitive	he not said here		to reason	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to reason=Theme
3	decide	past · perfect	he			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	eat not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	her = she	anyway property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Patient

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