Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the House Dog: a hungry wolf…
is the moral basically that freedom beats a full belly?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: freedom · What happens: be, beat · To what, where: moral, full belly
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 moral | cop |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 moral | det |
| 3 | moral | moral | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beats | csubj |
| 4 | basically | basically | ADV | _ | 7 beats | advmod |
| 5 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 freedom | det |
| 6 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beats | nsubj |
| 7 | beats | beat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 belly | det |
| 9 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 belly | amod |
| 10 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 beats | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 beats | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the moral | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | beat | present | that freedom | a full belly | basically property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location belly=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
nope, a warm house and a full stomach are worth more than any amount of freedom, as the wolf discovered
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nope | nope | INTJ | _ | 11 worth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nope | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 4 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 house | amod |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stomach | cc |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 stomach | det |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 stomach | amod |
| 9 | stomach | stomach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 house | conj |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 worth | cop |
| 11 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 12 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 worth | obj |
| 13 | than | than | ADP | _ | 15 amount | case |
| 14 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 amount | det |
| 15 | amount | amount | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 more | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 freedom | case |
| 17 | freedom | freedom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 amount | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wolf | punct |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 wolf | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wolf | det |
| 21 | wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 worth | parataxis |
| 22 | discovered | discover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 wolf | acl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | a warm house and a full stomach | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | discover | participle | the wolf not said here | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | amount | freedom | nom amount «possession transitive»: of=patient |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
yes, nothing is worth more than liberty
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 worth | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 5 worth | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 worth | cop |
| 5 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 5 worth | obj |
| 7 | than | than | ADP | _ | 8 liberty | case |
| 8 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 worth | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | nothing | than liberty; worth property | tree rules |
Option 3
yes, a full belly matters most
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 matters | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 belly | det |
| 4 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 belly | amod |
| 5 | belly | belly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 matters | nsubj |
| 6 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 6 matters | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | matter | present | a full belly | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice
yes, but also the dogs were nice and the chain is good too because it keeps you safe from wolves
The tree, 20 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 8 nice | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nice | punct |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 nice | cc |
| 4 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 nice | advmod |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 dogs | det |
| 6 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 nice | nsubj |
| 7 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 nice | cop |
| 8 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 good | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chain | det |
| 11 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 good | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 good | cop |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 nice | conj |
| 14 | too | too | ADV | _ | 13 good | advmod |
| 15 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 17 keeps | mark |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 keeps | nsubj |
| 17 | keeps | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 nice | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 keeps | obj |
| 19 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 keeps | xcomp |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 wolves | case |
| 21 | wolves | wolf | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 safe | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the dogs | nice property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the chain | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | keep | present | chain | you | safe property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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