Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

Bro, wot was the Goat's dodgy plan for the Ass?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro wot · What happens: be · To what, where: dodgy plan

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wot	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	wot	wot	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 plan	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Goat	det
6	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Goat	case
8	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 plan	amod
9	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 Ass	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Ass	det
12	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 plan	nmod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bro wot	the Goat's dodgy plan				for the Ass	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

Limp into a ruined barn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Limp	limp	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	5 barn	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 barn	det
4	ruined	ruin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 barn	amod
5	barn	barn	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Limp	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	limp	imperative	you not said here			a ruined barn			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into barn=Destination
2	ruin	participle							vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Pretend to be asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	to	to	PART	_	4 asleep	mark
3	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	4 asleep	cop
4	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Pretend	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pretend	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	you not said here					asleep property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Fake a fit and fall in a ditch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Fake	fake	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fit	det
3	fit	fit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Fake	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 fall	cc
5	fall	fall	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Fake	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 ditch	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 ditch	det
8	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fall	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fake	imperative	you not said here	a fit					vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fit=Patient
2	fall	infinitive	you not said here			a ditch			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in ditch=Location

Option 4

Play dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Play	play	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Play	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	imperative	you not said here					dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=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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