Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wolf and the House Dog: a hungry wolf…

the dog said he wouldn't take lambs at that price, right?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: say, not take · To what, where: lambs, price · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 take	nsubj
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 take	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 take	advmod
7	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
8	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 take	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 price	case
10	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 price	det
11	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 take	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 take	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	7 take	discourse
14	?	?	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	not take	would	dog	lambs		that price			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme at price=Asset

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

yep, all the tender young lambs in the world

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 lambs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 lambs	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lambs	det
5	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lambs	amod
6	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lambs	amod
7	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 world	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 world	det
10	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lambs	nmod

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nope, he would eat the lambs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 eat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eat	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 eat	aux
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lambs	det
7	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 eat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	would	he	the lambs					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Patient

Option 3

yep, he would take the cakes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 take	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 take	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 take	aux
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cakes	det
7	cakes	cake	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	would	he	the cakes					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Theme

Option 4

yep, he would give up the chain and his master's warm bed for all the tender young lambs in the world

The tree, 22 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 give	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 give	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 give	aux
5	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 give	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 chain	det
8	chain	chain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 give	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 bed	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bed	nmod:poss
12	's	's	PART	_	11 master	case
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 bed	amod
14	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chain	conj
15	for	for	ADP	_	20 lambs	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 lambs	det:predet
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 lambs	det
18	tender	tender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lambs	amod
19	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 lambs	amod
20	lambs	lamb	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 give	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 world	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 world	det
23	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lambs	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	would	he	the chain and his master's warm bed				for all tender young lambs in the world	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chain=Source

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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