Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

What did the little fish offer in return?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: little fish · What happens: do, offer · To what, where: return

This is test 7 · ★ 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	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fish	det
4	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fish	amod
5	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 offer	nsubj
6	offer	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 return	case
8	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past							tree rules
2	offer	present	the little fish			return			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

a meal later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 meal	det
2	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 later	obl:unmarked
3	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 2

a grand dinner someday

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 someday	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 someday	amod
3	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 someday	compound
4	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

a proper big meal later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 meal	det
2	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meal	amod
3	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 meal	amod
4	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 later	obl:unmarked
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	root	root

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

Option 4

a decent feast after

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 feast	det
2	decent	decent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 feast	amod
3	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 after	nsubj
4	after	after	ADP	_	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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