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

Be real, what's the moral here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: be · To what, where: moral

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 moral	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 moral	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 moral	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 moral	det
7	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 real	conj
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 moral	advmod
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	imperative	you not said here					real property	tree rules
2	is a	present		the moral		here			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

work hard always

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	1 work	advmod
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	1 work	advmod

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

Option 2

a friend who works hard is best

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 friend	det
2	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 best	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 works	nsubj
4	works	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 friend	acl:relcl
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 works	advmod
6	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 best	cop
7	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	present	a friend					hard property	vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	present	a friend					good property	tree rules

Option 3

always wish for an easy life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 wish	advmod
2	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 life	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 life	det
5	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 life	amod
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wish	imperative	you not said here					for a easy life; always property	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

don't wish for someone else's easy life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	do	do	AUX	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 wish	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 wish	advmod
3	wish	wish	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	9 life	case
5	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 life	nmod:poss
6	else	else	ADV	_	5 someone	advmod
7	's	's	PART	_	5 someone	case
8	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 life	amod
9	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wish	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wish	imperative · do-support	you not said here					for someone's easy life	vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for life=Theme

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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