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Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…

The Stag wanted wheat off the Sheep, yeah? Who did he say would back him up?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stag · What happens: want, say, back up · To what, where: wheat, Stag · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 375 «Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag borrows wheat on the Wolf's word» 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

Sentence 1: The Stag wanted wheat off the Sheep, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Stag	det
2	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	off	off	ADP	_	7 Sheep	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Sheep	det
7	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 yeah	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 wanted	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the Stag	wheat				off the Sheep	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot wheat=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.

Sentence 2: Who did he say would back him up?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 say	nsubj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 say	aux
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 back	aux
6	back	back	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 back	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 back	compound:prt
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support							vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	back up	would		Stag					vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Agent

The options

Option 1

the Wolf who lived in the cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 cave	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 cave	det
7	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	the Wolf			the cave			vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in cave=Location

Option 2

the Shepherd who kept watch over the whole flock at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Shepherd	det
2	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 kept	nsubj
4	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Shepherd	acl:relcl
5	watch	watch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obj
6	over	over	ADP	_	9 flock	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flock	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 flock	amod
9	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 night	case
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Shepherd	watch		the whole flock	night		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent watch=Theme over flock=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the Wolf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

the Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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