Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the House Dog: a hungry wolf…
lowkey, is the dog's life really better than the wolf's?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: life
This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 374 «Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the House Dog: a hungry wolf is tempted by a well-fed dog's easy life until he learns the price of the dog's collar» 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 | lowkey | lowkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 lowkey | punct |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 life | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 dog | det |
| 5 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 dog | case |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | really | really | ADV | _ | 9 better | advmod |
| 9 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 life | advmod |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 wolf | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wolf | det |
| 12 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 better | obl |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 wolf | case |
| 14 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 life | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | lowkey | the dog's life | well property | 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
yeah, the dog has the better life
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 5 has | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 has | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | nsubj |
| 5 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 life | det |
| 7 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 life | amod |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 has | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the dog | the better life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
the dog has a chain, so it is not really better
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | nsubj |
| 3 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 chain | det |
| 5 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 has | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 better | punct |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 better | advmod |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 better | nsubj |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 better | cop |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 better | advmod |
| 11 | really | really | ADV | _ | 12 better | advmod |
| 12 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 has | parataxis |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | the dog | a chain | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not is | present | dog | good property | tree rules |
Option 3
no, the wolf is free and happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 6 free | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 wolf | det |
| 4 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 free | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 free | cop |
| 6 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 happy | cc |
| 8 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 free | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the wolf | free property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the wolf not said here | tree rules |
Option 4
nah, the dog is happy
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 6 happy | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 dog | det |
| 4 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 happy | nsubj |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happy | cop |
| 6 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the dog | happy property | tree rules |
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