Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the Lamb: a Wolf invents excu…

what does retorted mean, like she retorted back, is that like a comeback

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: she · What happens: retort, mean, retort back, be · To what, where: that · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 mean	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	aux
3	retorted	retort	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 mean	nsubj
4	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 retorted	punct
6	like	like	SCONJ	_	8 retorted	mark
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 retorted	nsubj
8	retorted	retort	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mean	ccomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 retorted	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 that	punct
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 that	cop
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 mean	obj
13	like	like	ADP	_	15 comeback	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 comeback	det
15	comeback	comeback	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 that	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	retort speech: other	participle				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	mean	present · do-support				tree rules
3	retort back speech: other	past	she			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
4	is a	present		that	like a comeback	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

answered back sharply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 answered	advmod
3	sharply	sharply	ADV	_	1 answered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer back speech: assert	past						sharply property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

replied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	replied	reply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	participle							vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

gave a short reply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 reply	det
3	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reply	amod
4	reply	reply	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past		a short reply					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme

Option 4

answered back slowly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	answered	answer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	back	back	ADV	_	1 answered	advmod
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	1 answered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	answer back speech: assert	past						slowly property	vn reciprocate-112-1 «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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