Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

Sus, what did the Fox reckon the Ass should've done?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox, Sus · What happens: reckon, do · To what, where: Sus

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fox	det
6	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Sus	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Ass	det
9	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	obj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
11	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	12 done	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the Fox	Sus					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Theme ass=Attribute
2	do	should · perfect	Sus						vn act-114-1 «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

stay quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 stay	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	imperative	you not said here					quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

kept his mouth shut

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 mouth	nmod:poss
3	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kept	obj
4	shut	shut	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past		his mouth				shut property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme

Option 3

should've kept schtum

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 kept	aux
3	kept	keep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	schtum	schtum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	should · perfect		schtum					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

should've stayed mute

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	aux
2	've	have	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 stayed	aux
3	stayed	stay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	mute	mute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	should · perfect		mute					vn exist-47.1 «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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