Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Who did the lion end up eating, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lion · What happens: do, end up, eat

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 end	nsubj
5	end	end	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 end	compound:prt
7	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 end	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 mate	punct
9	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eating	vocative
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	end up	present	the lion		tree rules
3	eat	gerund	the lion not said here	mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

All the neighbours who came round thinkin' he was poorly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 neighbours	det:predet
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 neighbours	det
3	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 neighbours	acl:relcl
6	round	round	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 thinkin	amod
7	thinkin	thinkin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
8	'	'	PUNCT	_	7 thinkin	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 poorly	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 poorly	cop
11	poorly	poorly	ADV	_	5 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	all neighbours	round thinkin					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	he					poorly property	tree rules

Option 2

The sheep that wandered in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sheep	acl:relcl
5	in	in	ADV	_	4 wandered	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	the sheep						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

The visitors who came round to check on him and never left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 visitors	det
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visitors	acl:relcl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	PART	_	7 check	mark
7	check	check	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	advcl
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 him	case
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 check	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 left	cc
11	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	12 left	advmod
12	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come round	past	the visitors	round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	check	to-infinitive	the visitors not said here	on him = he	vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on he=Location
3	not leave	participle	the visitors not said here		vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The visitors who came round

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 visitors	det
2	visitors	visitor	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visitors	acl:relcl
5	round	round	ADV	_	4 came	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come round	past	the visitors					round property	vn escape-51.1-1 «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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