Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

Bro, what did the donkey say he should have done?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro · What happens: do, say · To what, where: donkey · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
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	1 Bro	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 donkey	det
6	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 done	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 done	aux
10	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	11 done	aux
11	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 say	ccomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	Bro	the donkey	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent donkey=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	Bro		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	should · perfect	Bro		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

toil beside his fellow beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	beside	beside	ADP	_	5 beasts	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 beasts	nmod:poss
4	fellow	fellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 beasts	amod
5	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 toil	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

labour with his companions

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	labour	labour	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 companions	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 companions	nmod:poss
4	companions	companion	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 labour	nmod

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

Option 3

work alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 work	advmod

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

Option 4

work with the others

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 others	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 others	det
4	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 work	nmod

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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