Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass in the Lion's Skin: a silly bray g…

Lol, why were the two Cocks scrapping?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: two Cocks · What happens: scrap

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	8 scrapping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 scrapping	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 scrapping	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Cocks	det
6	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 Cocks	nummod
7	Cocks	cock	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 scrapping	nsubj
8	scrapping	scrap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 scrapping	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scrap	past · progressive	the two Cocks						vn battle-36.4 «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 · ← Mova's choice

they wanted the same hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 hen	det
4	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hen	amod
5	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	the same hen					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot hen=Theme

Option 2

they were fighting for a hen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fighting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fighting	aux
3	fighting	fight	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 hen	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hen	det
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fighting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past · progressive	they					for a hen	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

they couldn't stand each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stand	nsubj
2	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 stand	aux
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 stand	advmod
4	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	4 stand	obj
6	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not stand	could	they	each					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus

Option 4

they wanted food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	they	food					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=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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