Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pull…

Real talk, is the moral that kindness gets paid back?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: kindness · What happens: be, pay back · To what, where: moral

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 405 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pulls a thorn from a Lion's paw, and the Lion later spares him» 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moral	appos
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 moral	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 moral	det
6	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 paid	nsubj:pass
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 kindness	det
8	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 moral	nsubj
9	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 paid	aux:pass
10	paid	pay	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
11	back	back	ADV	_	10 paid	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 paid	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that kindness	the moral					tree rules
2	pay back	present · passive		the moral					vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset

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

Yeah, kindness gets rewarded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 rewarded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rewarded	nsubj:pass
4	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 rewarded	aux:pass
5	rewarded	reward	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reward	present · passive		kindness					vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, it's about bravery and luck

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 bravery	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 bravery	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bravery	cop
5	about	about	ADP	_	6 bravery	case
6	bravery	bravery	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 luck	cc
8	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bravery	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					about bravery and luck	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, helping someone can come back around to help you someday in the future

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 helping	punct
3	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 come	nsubj
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 helping	obj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
8	around	around	ADV	_	6 come	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 help	mark
10	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 come	advcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 help	obj
12	someday	someday	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 future	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 future	det
15	future	future	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 help	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	help	gerund		someone			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary
2	come back	can				around property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	you		the future		tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, helping someone can come back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 come	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 helping	punct
3	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 come	nsubj
4	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 helping	obj
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 come	aux
6	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	back	back	ADV	_	6 come	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	gerund			someone				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Beneficiary
2	come back	can							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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