Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the House Dog: a hungry wolf…

the dog said the wolf could eat cake and stuff, right?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog, wolf · What happens: say, eat · To what, where: cake · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 dog	det
2	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 wolf	det
5	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 eat	aux
7	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 eat	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 stuff	cc
10	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 cake	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 eat	punct
12	right	right	INTJ	_	7 eat	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the dog						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	could	the wolf	cake and stuff					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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 · ✓ the right answer

yes, sugar, cake, and tidbits too

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 sugar	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 sugar	punct
3	sugar	sugar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cake	punct
5	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sugar	conj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 tidbits	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 tidbits	cc
8	tidbits	tidbit	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sugar	conj
9	too	too	ADV	_	8 tidbits	advmod

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

Option 2

yes, bread and lamb for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	3 bread	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 bread	punct
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lamb	cc
5	lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bread	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lamb	nmod

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

Option 3

nope, only chicken bones and water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 bones	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	only	only	ADV	_	5 bones	advmod
4	chicken	chicken	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bones	compound
5	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 water	cc
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bones	conj

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yes, but he had to chase beggars and bark at people all day long to earn each piece of cake

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	5 had	cc
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 chase	mark
7	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 had	xcomp
8	beggars	beggar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 chase	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 bark	cc
10	bark	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	5 had	conj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 people	case
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 bark	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bark	obl:unmarked
15	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 bark	advmod
16	to	to	PART	_	17 earn	mark
17	earn	earn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 bark	advcl
18	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	19 piece	det
19	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 earn	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 cake	case
21	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	he				tree rules
2	chase	to-infinitive	he not said here	beggars			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beggar=Theme
3	bark	present	he not said here		day	at people; long property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at people=Stimulus
4	earn	to-infinitive	he not said here	each piece of cake			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=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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