Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Bruv, what did the old lion pretend to be?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: old lion · What happens: pretend, be

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 pretend	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 pretend	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pretend	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lion	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lion	amod
7	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pretend	nsubj
8	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	to	to	PART	_	10 be	mark
10	be	be	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 pretend	xcomp
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 pretend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	past · do-support	the old lion					Bruv vocative	tree rules
2	be	to-infinitive	the old lion not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Dead proper sick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADV	_	3 sick	advmod
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sick	amod
3	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Dead ill

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ill	amod
2	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

Proper bad off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Proper	properly	ADV	_	2 bad	advmod
2	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 bad	compound:prt

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Well knackered out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 knackered	advmod
2	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 knackered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker out	participle						well property	tree rules

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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