Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

fr the hares wanted everyone equal, what did the lions say back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: fr hares, lions · What happens: want, say back · To what, where: everyone

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hares	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hares	det
3	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	4 wanted	obj
6	equal	equal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 everyone	amod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 say	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 say	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 say	aux
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lions	det
11	lions	lion	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 say	nsubj
12	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 everyone	acl:relcl
13	back	back	ADV	_	12 say	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the fr hares	everyone					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot everyone=Theme
2	say back speech: assert	past · do-support	the lions						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

you are only hares, so your words lack claws and teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 hares	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hares	cop
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 hares	advmod
4	hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lack	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	9 lack	advmod
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 words	nmod:poss
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lack	nsubj
9	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hares	conj
10	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 lack	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 teeth	cc
12	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 claws	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	you	hares	tree rules
2	lack	present	your words	claws and teeth	tree rules
3	word		your		nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

your talk lacks any real force

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 talk	nmod:poss
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacks	nsubj
3	lacks	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	6 force	det
5	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 force	amod
6	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lacks	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	present	your talk	any real force					tree rules
2	talk		your						nom talk «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

your words lack claws and teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lack	nsubj
3	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lack	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 teeth	cc
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 claws	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lack	present	your words	claws and teeth					tree rules
2	word		your						nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

your words lack claws and teeth, so go home now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 words	nmod:poss
2	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lack	nsubj
3	lack	lack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 lack	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 teeth	cc
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 claws	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 go	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
9	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 lack	conj
10	home	home	ADV	_	9 go	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 go	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	lack	present	your words	claws and teeth			tree rules
2	go	infinitive	your words not said here		now	home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	word		your				nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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