Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

Lowkey, what was the donkey's job every day?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: job

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 job	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lowkey	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 job	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 job	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 donkey	case
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 day	det
10	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 job	obl:unmarked
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 job	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Lowkey	the donkey's job			day		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 · ← Mova's choice

plowing fields and carrying grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	plowing	plow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 plowing	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 carrying	cc
4	carrying	carry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 plowing	conj
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 carrying	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plow	gerund		fields					vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location
2	carry	gerund		grain					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grain=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

grinding corn and hauling wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grinding	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 hauling	cc
4	hauling	haul	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 grinding	conj
5	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hauling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		corn					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient
2	haul	gerund		wood					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 3

pulling carts and drawing water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pulling	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 water	amod
2	carts	cart	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 pulling	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 drawing	cc
4	drawing	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 pulling	conj
5	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pull	gerund		carts					vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cart=Theme
2	draw	gerund							vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

grinding corn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grinding	grind	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grinding	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grind	gerund		corn					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corn=Patient

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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