Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…

bet, so what's the lesson of the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: bet, be · To what, where: lesson

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 369 «Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox begs a wary Cock to come down with false news of peace» 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	bet	bet	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 lesson	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	7 lesson	advmod
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 lesson	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 lesson	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lesson	det
7	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 bet	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 story	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 story	det
10	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lesson	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 bet	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bet	imperative	you not said here						vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present		the lesson				of the story	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

Friends are always honest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 honest	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 honest	cop
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 honest	advmod
4	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Friends					always, honest property	tree rules

Option 2

Be kind

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Be	be	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	kind	kind	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					kind property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fake friends are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 friends	amod
2	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dangerous	nsubj
3	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dangerous	cop
4	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Stay high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					high 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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