Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

and the wolf was snarling and shouting, like the lamb's the bad guy

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: snarl, shout, be · To what, where: bad guy

This is test 8 · ★ 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	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snarling	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snarling	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 snarling	aux
5	snarling	snarl	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 shouting	cc
7	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 snarling	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 guy	punct
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 lamb	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lamb	det
11	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 guy	obl
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 guy	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 guy	det
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 guy	amod
15	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snarling	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	snarl	past · progressive	the wolf			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	gerund	the wolf not said here			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	present	the wolf not said here	the bad guy	like the lamb	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

he smiled at her warmly

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 smiled	nsubj
2	smiled	smile	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 smiled	obl
5	warmly	warmly	ADV	_	2 smiled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	smile	past	he					at her = she; warmly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he snarled at her angrily

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 snarled	nsubj
2	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snarled	obl
5	angrily	angrily	ADV	_	2 snarled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snarl	past	he					at her = she; angrily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at she=Stimulus

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he snarled and shouted at her, and she was the one blamed

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 snarled	nsubj
2	snarled	snarl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 shouted	cc
4	shouted	shout	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 snarled	conj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 her	case
6	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 shouted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 one	cc
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 one	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 one	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 one	det
12	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 snarled	parataxis
13	blamed	blame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 one	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	snarl	past	he			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	shout speech: express	past	he not said here		at her = she	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is a	past	she	the one		tree rules
4	blame	participle		the one not said here		vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he thanked her for the water

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 thanked	nsubj
2	thanked	thank	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 thanked	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 water	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 water	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 thanked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	thank speech: thank	past	he		her = she			for the water	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent she=Theme for water=Attribute

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