Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…
Oi, what did the ass do to get fussed over?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: ass · What happens: do, fuss over
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | Oi | oi | INTJ | _ | 3 what | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Oi | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 do | obj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 do | aux |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 ass | det |
| 6 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 fussed | mark |
| 9 | get | get | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 fussed | aux:pass |
| 10 | fussed | fuss | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 do | advcl |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 10 fussed | compound:prt |
| 12 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 do | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past · do-support | the ass | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | fuss over | to-infinitive · passive | the ass not said here | 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
Ran round and barked
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ran | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | round | round | ADV | _ | 1 Ran | advmod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 barked | cc |
| 4 | barked | bark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Ran | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | participle | round property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | bark | participle | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
Went mental and jumped on his master
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Went | xcomp |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 jumped | cc |
| 4 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Went | conj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 master | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 jumped | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | jump | past | his master | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on master=Trajectory |
Option 3
Kicked up a right fuss
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kicked | kick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Kicked | compound:prt |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 fuss | det |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 fuss | amod |
| 5 | fuss | fuss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kicked | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick up | participle | a right fuss | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient |
Option 4
Went mental
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | mental | mental | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Went | xcomp |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | mental property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/373-pg19994-part12/t7/