Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

Yo, what did the Lion try to get the Bull to come and eat?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lion, Bull · What happens: try, get, come, eat · To what, where: Bull

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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	_	7 try	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 try	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 try	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 try	nsubj
7	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 get	mark
9	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 try	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Bull	det
11	Bull	bull	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 get	obj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 come	mark
13	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 get	xcomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 come	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 try	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past · do-support	the Lion		tree rules
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the Bull	tree rules
3	come	to-infinitive	the Bull not said here		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	eat	infinitive	the Bull not said here		vn eat-39.1-1 «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

A fresh sheep he'd killed in the field that morning

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj:pass
5	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sheep	acl:relcl
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 field	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 field	det
9	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 killed	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 morning	det
11	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 field	nmod:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive	a fresh sheep not said here	sheep		the field that morning			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

A goat he'd caught

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 goat	det
2	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 caught	nsubj:pass
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 caught	aux
5	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 goat	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past · perfect · passive	a goat not said here	goat					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

Option 3

A whole sheep he had killed and dragged back to his cave

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 sheep	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 sheep	amod
3	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 killed	nsubj:pass
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 killed	aux
6	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 sheep	acl:relcl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 dragged	cc
8	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 killed	conj
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 dragged	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 cave	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 cave	nmod:poss
12	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dragged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive	a whole sheep not said here	sheep					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	drag back	participle	a whole sheep not said here			sheep's cave			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to cave=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

A sheep he'd killed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 sheep	det
2	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 killed	nsubj:pass
4	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 killed	aux
5	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 sheep	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past · perfect · passive	a sheep not said here	sheep					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme

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