Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

Nah, what did the donkey lick?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: donkey lick

This is test 13 · ★ 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	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
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 lick	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lick	compound
7	lick	lick	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 lick					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lick=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

his stall

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	2 stall	nmod:poss
2	stall	stall	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

the face of the servants who drove him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 face	det
2	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 servants	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 face	nmod
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 drove	nsubj
7	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 servants	acl:relcl
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 drove	obj
9	away	away	ADV	_	7 drove	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drive away	past	the servants	him = he				away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

his master

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	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

dog

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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