Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pull…

Fam, what were the lion's pals doing in the forest anyway?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fam, pals · What happens: be, do · To what, where: pals, forest

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 pals	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 pals	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 pals	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pals	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pals	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 lion	case
8	pals	pal	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fam	appos
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 pals	acl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 forest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 forest	det
12	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 doing	obl
13	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	9 doing	advmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Fam	lion's pals					tree rules
2	do	gerund	lion's pals not said here			the forest		anyway property	vn act-114-1 «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

No idea, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 idea	det
2	idea	idea	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 idea	punct
4	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	2 idea	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The story doesn't say, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 story	det
2	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
3	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 say	advmod
5	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct
7	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	5 say	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not say speech: assert	present · do-support	the story						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were hunting for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hunting	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hunting	aux
3	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 hunting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	past · progressive	They					for food	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for food=Theme

Option 4

Hunting, bruh

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Hunting	punct
3	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	1 Hunting	discourse

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

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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