Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…
Ok but what did the donkey lament?
Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: donkey lament
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 387 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous donkey copies a pampered lapdog and gets beaten» 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 | Ok | ok | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 did | cc |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 lament | det |
| 6 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lament | compound |
| 7 | lament | lament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | obj |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | the donkey lament | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lament=Eventuality |
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
that he was stuck working while the lapdog rested
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 5 working | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 working | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 working | aux |
| 4 | stuck | stuck | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 working | amod |
| 5 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 9 rested | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 lapdog | det |
| 8 | lapdog | lapdog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 rested | nsubj |
| 9 | rested | rest | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 working | advcl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · progressive | he | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | rest | past | the lapdog | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 2 · ← Mova's choice
the cruel weather
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 weather | det |
| 2 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 weather | amod |
| 3 | weather | weather | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
his own hard fate
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 fate | nmod:poss |
| 2 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fate | amod |
| 3 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 fate | amod |
| 4 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fate | his = he | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=agent |
Option 4
how badly he was treated by all of the servants
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 badly | advmod |
| 2 | badly | badly | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 treated | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 treated | aux:pass |
| 5 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 all | case |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 treated | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 servants | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 servants | det |
| 10 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 all | nmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | treat | past · passive | he | by all; badly property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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