Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

Yo, what were the flies doing to the Fox?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: flies · What happens: be, do · To what, where: flies

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 flies	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flies	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 flies	det
6	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 flies	acl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Fox	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fox	det
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 doing	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 flies	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the flies					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the flies not said here					to the Fox	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Pushing him around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pushing	push	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pushing	obj
3	around	around	ADV	_	1 Pushing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	push around	gerund		him = he				around property	vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Biting him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Biting	bite	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Biting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	gerund		him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Tickling his ears

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tickling	tickle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 ears	nmod:poss
3	ears	ear	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Tickling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tickle	gerund		his ears					vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Sucking him dry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Sucking	suck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Sucking	obj
3	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Sucking	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	suck	gerund		him = he				dry property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent he=Source

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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