Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

ngl the fox's cure for the lion is wild, what did he say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl cure, lion · What happens: be, say · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 cure	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cure	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 fox	case
5	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 wild	nsubj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 lion	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 lion	det
8	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cure	nmod
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 wild	cop
10	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 say	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 say	obj
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 say	aux
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 say	nsubj
15	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 wild	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 wild	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the fox's ngl cure for the lion					wild property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	lion						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 · ✓ the right answer

Skin a wolf alive and wrap yourself in it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrap	cc
6	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	conj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 wrap	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrap	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present		yourself		wolf			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in it=Destination

Option 2

Skin a bear and wear it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 bear	det
3	bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Skin	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wear	cc
5	wear	wear	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Skin	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wear	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	skin	imperative	you not said here	a bear					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bear=Patient
2	wear	infinitive	you not said here	bear					vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

Skin a wolf alive and wrap yourself in it while it's warm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrap	cc
6	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	conj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 wrap	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrap	obl
10	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 warm	mark
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 warm	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 warm	cop
13	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 wrap	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present		yourself		wolf			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in it=Destination
2	is	present	Skin					warm property	tree rules

Option 4

Skin a wolf alive and wrap yourself in it and then sleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	nsubj
4	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 wrap	cc
6	wrap	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 alive	conj
7	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 wrap	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wrap	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 sleep	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 sleep	advmod
12	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wrap	present		yourself		wolf			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent yourself=Theme in it=Destination

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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