Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Cock: a cat invents an exc…

Hang on, what does supperless even mean, like in proper English?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you · What happens: hang on, be, mean

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 386 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Cock: a cat invents an excuse to eat a cock, and a wolf in sheep's clothing is killed by mistake» 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	Hang	hang	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	1 Hang	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 supperless	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 supperless	nsubj
5	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 supperless	cop
6	supperless	supperless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Hang	conj
7	even	even	ADV	_	8 mean	advmod
8	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 supperless	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 English	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 English	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 English	case
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 English	amod
13	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Hang	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hang	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	hang on	imperative	you not said here	like proper English	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present		supperless property	tree rules
3	mean	present			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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 · ✓ the right answer

Having no supper to eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 supper	det
3	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Having	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 eat	mark
5	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 supper	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	gerund		no supper					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supper=Patient
2	eat	to-infinitive		no supper not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

No food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 food	det
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

Having eaten too much food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 eaten	aux
2	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 much	advmod
4	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 food	amod
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eaten	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund · perfect		much food					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 4

Going to bed without food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	to	to	ADP	_	3 bed	case
3	bed	bed	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Going	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	gerund				bed		without food	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to bed=Initial_Location

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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