Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

the horse said the soldier turned him into an ass, lol, was he right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: horse, soldier · What happens: say, turn, be · To what, where: horse, ass · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 soldier	det
5	soldier	soldier	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	nsubj
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 turned	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 ass	case
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 ass	det
10	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 turned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 lol	punct
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 turned	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 right	punct
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 right	cop
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 right	nsubj
16	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 said	ccomp
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	turn	past	the soldier	horse	a ass		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent he=Theme into ass=Trajectory
3	is	past	soldier			right property	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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he made him carry wood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	him = he					tree rules
2	carry	infinitive	him = he not said here	wood					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wood=Theme

Option 2

yep, he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah he did

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, he made him dig holes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
4	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	obj
6	dig	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 made	xcomp
7	holes	hole	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 dig	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	he	him = he					tree rules
2	dig	infinitive	him = he not said here	holes					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hole=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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