Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

What's the big moral from the Cocks?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big moral · What happens: be

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 379 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray gives the Ass away» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moral	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moral	amod
5	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	from	from	ADP	_	8 Cocks	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Cocks	det
8	Cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 moral	nmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the big moral from the Cocks						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

Vanity brings a long fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Vanity	vanity	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	nsubj
2	brings	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
4	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fall	amod
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 brings	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	present	Vanity	a long fall					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent fall=Theme

Option 2

Pride always goes before a hard fall for everyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 goes	advmod
3	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	before	before	ADP	_	7 fall	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 fall	det
6	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fall	amod
7	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 goes	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 everyone	case
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	7 fall	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Pride			a hard fall for everyone		always property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Pride goes before a fall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pride	pride	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	before	before	ADP	_	5 fall	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 fall	det
5	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	Pride			a fall			vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme before fall=Location

Option 4

Fight often and you will surely lose your crown one day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fight	fight	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	often	often	ADV	_	1 Fight	advmod
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 lose	cc
4	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 lose	nsubj
5	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 lose	aux
6	surely	surely	ADV	_	7 lose	advmod
7	lose	lose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Fight	conj
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 crown	nmod:poss
9	crown	crown	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obj
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 day	nummod
11	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lose	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	fight	imperative	you not said here			often property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	lose	future	you	your crown	day	surely property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crown=Eventuality
3	crown		your				nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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