Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

the fox said hello to the lion, that's sus right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fox, that · What happens: say, be · To what, where: lion · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fox	det
2	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hello	hello	INTJ	_	3 said	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 lion	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 right	punct
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 right	nsubj
10	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 right	cop
11	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 right	amod
12	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the fox		the lion				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent hello=Topic to lion=Recipient
2	is	present	that					right 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

he was nervous at first

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	3 nervous	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 nervous	cop
3	nervous	nervous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 first	case
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 nervous	obl

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

Option 2

he was scared the whole time

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	3 scared	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 scared	cop
3	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 time	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 scared	obl:unmarked

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he got super bold by the third time

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	4 bold	nsubj
2	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bold	aux:pass
3	super	super	ADV	_	4 bold	advmod
4	bold	bol	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	by	by	ADP	_	8 time	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 time	det
7	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 time	amod
8	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bol	past · passive		he			time	super property	tree rules

Option 4

yes it is

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 is	discourse
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 is	nsubj
3	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	present	it						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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