Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Why'd the Hare have a kip, was he being lazy or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hare · What happens: have, be · To what, where: kip

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 have	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hare	det
4	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 have	nsubj
5	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 lazy	advcl
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 kip	det
7	kip	kip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 lazy	cop
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 lazy	nsubj
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 lazy	cop
12	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 lazy	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 lazy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	the Hare	a kip					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kip=Patient
2	is	past	Hare					lazy 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

he was showing off, yeah, and thought he'd win anyway, bruv

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 showing	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 thought	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 thought	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 thought	cc
9	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	conj
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 win	nsubj
11	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 win	aux
12	win	win	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 thought	ccomp
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	12 win	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bruv	punct
15	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 showing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	he	bruv		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	past	he not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	win	would	he		anyway property	vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

he fancied a nap, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fancied	nsubj
2	fancied	fancy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 nap	det
4	nap	nap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fancied	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 fancied	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 fancied	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fancy	past	he	a nap					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nap=Stimulus

Option 3

he was just bored, innit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 bored	advmod
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bored	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 bored	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					bored property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was showing off, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 showing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 showing	aux
3	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 showing	compound:prt
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 showing	punct
6	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 showing	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show off	past · progressive	he						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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