Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

What's the big moral here?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big moral · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 What	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 moral	det
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 moral	amod
5	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 What	nsubj
6	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 moral	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 What	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the big moral						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

Never trust a stranger who offers you help when you are hurt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	2 trust	advmod
2	trust	trust	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 stranger	det
4	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 trust	obj
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 offers	nsubj
6	offers	offer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 stranger	acl:relcl
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 help	nsubj
8	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 offers	ccomp
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 hurt	advmod
10	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 hurt	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 hurt	aux:pass
12	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 help	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not trust	imperative	you not said here	a stranger	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme
2	offer	present	a stranger		tree rules
3	help	present	you		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
4	hurt	present · passive		you	vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2

Always accept help from strangers, even when you feel quite safe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	2 accept	advmod
2	accept	accept	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 accept	obj
4	from	from	ADP	_	5 strangers	case
5	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 accept	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 feel	punct
7	even	even	ADV	_	10 feel	advmod
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 feel	advmod
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 feel	nsubj
10	feel	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 accept	advcl
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 safe	advmod
12	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 feel	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	accept	imperative	you not said here	help		strangers		always property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent help=Theme from stranger=Source
2	feel	present	you					safe property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

A known pain can beat a worse one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 pain	det
2	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pain	amod
3	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	nsubj
4	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 beat	aux
5	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	participle							vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	beat	can	a known pain	a worse one					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme

Option 4

Friends always help each other

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 help	nsubj
2	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	3 help	advmod
3	help	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	3 help	obj
5	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 each	fixed

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	present	Friends	each				always property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Beneficiary

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/books/396-pg21-part17/t13/