Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…
Real talk, did the donkey win in the end?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Real talk, donkey · What happens: do, win · To what, where: end
This is test 12 · ★ 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 | Real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 talk | amod |
| 2 | talk | talk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 did | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 talk | punct |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 donkey | det |
| 6 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | nsubj |
| 7 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 did | parataxis |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 end | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 end | det |
| 10 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 win | obl |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | Real talk | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | win | present | the donkey | in the end | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in end=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 · ← Mova's choice
yes, he was given a reward
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 5 given | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 yes | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 given | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 given | aux:pass |
| 5 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 reward | det |
| 7 | reward | reward | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 given | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past · passive | he | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient reward=Theme |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
no, he got beaten nearly to death
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 beaten | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 beaten | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 beaten | nsubj |
| 4 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 beaten | aux:pass |
| 5 | beaten | beat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 5 beaten | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 death | case |
| 8 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 beaten | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beat | past · passive | he | death | nearly property | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Patient to death=Recipient |
Option 3
no, he was sold at market
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 sold | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 sold | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 sold | aux:pass |
| 5 | sold | sell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sold | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sell | past · passive | he | market | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: subject=Theme at market=Asset |
Option 4
no, he lost
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | no | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 4 lost | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 no | punct |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 lost | nsubj |
| 4 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lose | past | he | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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