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Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs…

Mercury told the philosopher off. Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mercury · What happens: tell off · To what, where: philosopher

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 394 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Mice, part 15: a Cat hangs from a peg, pretends to be dead, and fails to lure the Mice out» 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

Sentence 1: Mercury told the philosopher off.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 told	nsubj
2	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 philosopher	det
4	philosopher	philosopher	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 told	iobj
5	off	off	ADP	_	2 told	compound:prt
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 told	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell off speech: assert	past	Mercury		the philosopher				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent philosopher=Recipient

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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

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

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

he doubted the gods' plan

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 doubted	nsubj
2	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gods	det
4	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 plan	nmod:poss
5	'	's	PART	_	4 gods	case
6	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 doubted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doubt	past	he	the gods's plan					vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plan=Theme
2	plan		the gods						nom plan «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he judged Providence unfairly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 judged	nsubj
2	judged	judge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	Providence	Providence	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 judged	obj
4	unfairly	unfairly	ADV	_	2 judged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	judge	past	he	Providence				unfairly property	vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Agent providence=Value

Option 3

he was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rude	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 rude	cop
3	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					rude property	tree rules

Option 4

he insulted the wise king

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 insulted	nsubj
2	insulted	insult	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 king	det
4	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 king	amod
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 insulted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	insult	past	he	the wise king					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus king=Experiencer

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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