Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

Ngl, what could the lapdog do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: lapdog · What happens: do

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Ngl	Ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 do	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Ngl	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lapdog	det
6	lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 do	nsubj
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 do	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	could	the lapdog					Ngl vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=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 · ✓ the right answer

lots of tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 tricks	case
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lots	nmod

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

Option 2

lots of tricks and begging for food from the table

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	lots	lot	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 tricks	case
3	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 lots	nmod
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 begging	cc
5	begging	beg	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 lots	conj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begging	obl
8	from	from	ADP	_	10 table	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 table	det
10	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	gerund				the table		for food	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic

Option 3

few tricks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 tricks	amod
2	tricks	trick	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

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

Option 4

many clever games

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 games	amod
2	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 games	amod
3	games	game	NOUN	Number=Plur	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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