Test 12 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

Bro, what's the fox doing when the lion roars?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bro, fox · What happens: be, do · To what, where: fox, lion roars

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fox	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 fox	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 fox	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fox	det
6	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bro	conj
7	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 fox	acl
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	11 roars	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roars	det
10	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 roars	compound
11	roars	roar	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 doing	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Bro and the fox	the fox					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the fox not said here	the lion roars					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent roar=Eventuality

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

Telling the lion to stop roaring

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 stop	mark
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp
6	roaring	roar	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 stop	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	to whom	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund	the lion	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	roar	gerund		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Eating the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		the horse					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient

Option 3

Telling the lion to run

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lion	det
3	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Telling	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 run	mark
5	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Telling	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	gerund			the lion				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient clause=Topic
2	run not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Saying Jip Jip to the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	Jip	Jip	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Jip	compound
3	Jip	Jip	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 horse	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 horse	det
6	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Saying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	gerund		Jip Jip	the horse				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jip=Topic to horse=Recipient

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