Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, THE COCK AND THE FOX, part 8: a sly Fox be…
did the Cock feel brave inside?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cock · What happens: feel
This is test 4 · ★ 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 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feel | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Cock | det |
| 3 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feel | nsubj |
| 4 | feel | feel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | brave | brave | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 feel | xcomp |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 feel | advmod |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 feel | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past · do-support | the Cock | brave, inside property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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
Yes, he felt bold inside
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 4 felt | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 felt | nsubj |
| 4 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | bold | bold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 felt | xcomp |
| 6 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 4 felt | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | he | bold, inside property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 2
Yeah, he was not scared
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 6 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Yeah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 scared | cop |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 scared | advmod |
| 6 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | he | scared property | tree rules |
Option 3
Nah, he was scared of the Fox but hid it from everyone around
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 hid | cc |
| 10 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | conj |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hid | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 everyone | case |
| 13 | everyone | everyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 10 hid | obl |
| 14 | around | around | ADV | _ | 10 hid | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | of the Fox; scared property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hide | past | he not said here | Fox | everyone | around property | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Patient from everyone=Beneficiary |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
Nah, he was scared of the Fox
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 5 scared | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Nah | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 scared | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 scared | cop |
| 5 | scared | scared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Fox | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Fox | det |
| 8 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 scared | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | he | of the Fox; scared property | tree rules |
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