Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…
No cap, who yeeted the donkey out?
Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap · What happens: yeet out · To what, where: donkey
This is test 3 · ★ 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 2 cap | det |
| 2 | cap | cap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yeeted | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 yeeted | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 yeeted | nsubj |
| 5 | yeeted | yeet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 donkey | det |
| 7 | donkey | donkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 yeeted | obj |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 yeeted | compound:prt |
| 9 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 yeeted | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeet out | past | no cap | the donkey | tree rules |
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
the servants with kicks, clubs, cuffs and shouts from the yard
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 shouts | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 kicks | case |
| 4 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 servants | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 clubs | punct |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kicks | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 cuffs | punct |
| 8 | cuffs | cuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kicks | conj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 shouts | cc |
| 10 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 yard | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 shouts | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | the servants with kicks and clubs and cuffs | from the yard | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 2
the grooms with whips and rope
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 grooms | det |
| 2 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 whips | case |
| 4 | whips | whip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 grooms | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 rope | cc |
| 6 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grooms | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 3
the maids with brooms and shouts
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 maids | det |
| 2 | maids | maid | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 shouts | nsubj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 brooms | case |
| 4 | brooms | broom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 maids | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 shouts | cc |
| 6 | shouts | shout | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shout speech: express | present | the maids with brooms | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer
the servants with kicks and clubs
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 servants | det |
| 2 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 kicks | case |
| 4 | kicks | kick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 servants | nmod |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 clubs | cc |
| 6 | clubs | club | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 kicks | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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