Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a b…

wait, what was the wolf actually doing?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: wait, do

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 392 «Aesop's Fables, The Old Hound: a hound too old to hold a boar gets scolded by his master» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 doing	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 doing	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 doing	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 wolf	det
6	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 doing	nsubj
7	actually	actually	ADV	_	8 doing	advmod
8	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 wait	parataxis
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	the wolf					actually property	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

sleeping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sleeping	sleeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

jeering at the shepherds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	jeering	jeer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	4 shepherds	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherds	det
4	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 jeering	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jeer	gerund						at the shepherds	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

eating meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

mocking the shepherds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	mocking	mock	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherds	det
3	shepherds	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 mocking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mock	gerund		the shepherds					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shepherd=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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