Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

ngl the wolf usually just gobbles stuff up, but this lamb looked so innocent he needed a fake reason

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl, lamb · What happens: stuff up, look, need · To what, where: fake reason

This is test 6 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stuff	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
4	usually	usually	ADV	_	7 stuff	advmod
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 stuff	advmod
6	gobbles	gobble	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 stuff	nsubj
7	stuff	stuff	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 stuff	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 looked	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 looked	cc
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 lamb	det
12	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 looked	nsubj
13	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 needed	advcl
14	so	so	ADV	_	15 innocent	advmod
15	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 looked	xcomp
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 needed	nsubj
17	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stuff	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 reason	det
19	fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 reason	amod
20	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 needed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stuff up	present	ngl		usually property	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	look	past	this lamb		innocent property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	need	past	lamb	a fake reason		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot reason=Theme

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

she was really quite dangerous

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	5 dangerous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dangerous	cop
3	really	really	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 dangerous	advmod
5	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					dangerous property	tree rules

Option 2

she was hiding a sharp knife

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 hiding	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hiding	aux
3	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 knife	det
5	sharp	sharp	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 knife	amod
6	knife	knife	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hiding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide	past · progressive	she	a sharp knife					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knife=Patient

Option 3

she looked helpless and innocent, so he had to invent a reason

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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 innocent	cc
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 helpless	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 had	advmod
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 looked	conj
10	to	to	PART	_	11 invent	mark
11	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 had	xcomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 reason	det
13	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 invent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	look	past	she		helpless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	have	past	he			tree rules
3	invent	to-infinitive	he not said here	a reason		vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Result

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

she looked helpless and innocent

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	2 looked	nsubj
2	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 looked	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 innocent	cc
5	innocent	innocent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 helpless	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	past	she					helpless property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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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