Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

So sus, what did the donkey break before he ran in?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, run in · To what, where: donkey break

This is test 5 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	2 sus	advmod
2	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sus	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 break	det
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 break	compound
8	break	break	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 ran	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ran	nsubj
11	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 did	advcl
12	in	in	ADP	_	11 ran	compound:prt
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the donkey break					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent break=Eventuality
2	run in	past	he						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

his cords and halter

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 cords	nmod:poss
2	cords	cord	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 halter	cc
4	halter	halter	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cords	conj

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

Option 2

his rope

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

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

Option 3

his harness and reins

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 harness	nmod:poss
2	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 reins	cc
4	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 harness	conj

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

Option 4

the wooden fence

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fence	det
2	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 fence	amod
3	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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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