Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

so the wolf waited all day for a kid, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wolf · What happens: wait, innit

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 404 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is hauled back by the tail, and the fables that follow each end with a small lesson.» 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	so	so	ADV	_	4 waited	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl:unmarked
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 kid	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 kid	det
9	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 waited	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 waited	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	the wolf				day	for a kid	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	the wolf not said here						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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, right outside the cottage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 cottage	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cottage	punct
3	right	right	ADV	_	6 cottage	advmod
4	outside	outside	ADP	_	6 cottage	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cottage	det
6	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

nah, he waited in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 forest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 forest	det
7	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he			the forest			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location

Option 3

nah, he left after an hour and went off to hunt a sheep in the woods

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 left	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 left	nsubj
4	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	after	after	ADP	_	7 hour	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 hour	det
7	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 left	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 went	cc
9	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 left	conj
10	off	off	ADP	_	9 went	compound:prt
11	to	to	PART	_	12 hunt	mark
12	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 went	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 sheep	det
14	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 hunt	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 woods	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 woods	det
17	woods	wood	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	leave	past	he			hour	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go off	past	he not said here				tree rules
3	hunt	to-infinitive	he not said here	a sheep	the woods		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sheep=Theme in wood=Location

Option 4

yeah, down by the river bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 down	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 down	punct
3	down	down	ADV	_	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	7 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bank	det
6	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 bank	compound
7	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 down	obl

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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