Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

Mate, why did the Ass go all loud and honk?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ass · What happens: go, honk

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 go	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ass	det
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	all	all	ADV	_	9 loud	advmod
9	loud	loud	ADV	_	7 go	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 honk	cc
11	honk	honk	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 go	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Ass					Mate vocative; loud property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	honk	infinitive	the Ass not said here						vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

he was buzzing they fled

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 buzzing	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzing	aux
3	buzzing	buzz	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fled	nsubj
5	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzing	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buzz	past · progressive	he						tree rules
2	flee	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

he was over the moon they all ran off super fast

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	5 moon	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moon	cop
3	over	over	ADP	_	5 moon	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moon	det
5	moon	moon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 ran	nsubj
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 ran	advmod
8	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 moon	acl:relcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 ran	compound:prt
10	super	super	ADV	_	11 fast	advmod
11	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	8 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he			the moon			tree rules
2	run off	past	they	the moon not said here				fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme moon=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he was made up they all legged it off

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 made	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	aux:pass
3	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 legged	advcl
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 made	compound:prt
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legged	nsubj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 legged	advmod
7	legged	leg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 legged	obj
9	off	off	ADP	_	7 legged	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make up	past · passive		he					vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Pivot
2	leg off	past	they	it					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he was chuffed they all ran

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 chuffed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	aux:pass
3	chuffed	chuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 ran	nsubj
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 ran	advmod
6	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 chuffed	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuff	past · passive		he					tree rules
2	run	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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