Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

ok so what's the moral of the peacock one, in short?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moral · What happens: be · To what, where: short

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	so	so	ADV	_	3 what	advmod
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moral	det
6	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 peacock	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 peacock	det
9	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moral	nmod
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 peacock	flat
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
12	in	in	ADP	_	13 short	case
13	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 what	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the moral of the peacock			short			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

do not waste your life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 waste	aux
2	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 waste	advmod
3	waste	waste	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 life	nmod:poss
5	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 waste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not waste	imperative · do-support	you not said here	your life					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

don't trade freedom for show

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 trade	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 trade	advmod
3	trade	trade	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	freedom	freedom	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trade	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 show	case
6	show	show	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 trade	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not trade	imperative · do-support	you not said here	freedom				for show	vn exchange-13.6.1 «NP V NP PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent freedom=Theme for show=Co-Theme

Option 3

never be proud and vain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	3 proud	advmod
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 proud	cop
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 vain	cc
5	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 proud	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is	imperative	you not said here					proud property	tree rules
2	be		you not said here						tree rules

Option 4

be humble

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 be	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	imperative	you not said here					humble property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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