Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lapdog, part 8: a jealous…

Vibe check, what did the donkey do to his master?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: do · To what, where: Vibe check

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Vibe	vibe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 check	compound
2	check	check	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 do	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 do	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 do	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 donkey	det
7	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	nsubj
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 check	acl:relcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 master	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 master	nmod:poss
11	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 do	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 check	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · do-support	the donkey	Vibe check				to donkey's master	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

jumped on his back and then rolled him over the floor

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jumped	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 rolled	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 rolled	advmod
7	rolled	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 jumped	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 rolled	obj
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 floor	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 floor	det
11	floor	floor	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 rolled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past				his back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory
2	roll	past		him = he		the floor	then		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme over floor=Trajectory

Option 2

kicked his leg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 leg	nmod:poss
3	leg	leg	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		his leg					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent leg=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

jumped on his back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	4 back	case
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 back	nmod:poss
4	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jumped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past				his back			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on back=Trajectory

Option 4

knocked him over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	knocked	knock	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 knocked	obj
3	over	over	ADP	_	1 knocked	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knock over	past		him = he					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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