Test 2 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

Lowkey the fox is a total genius, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lowkey · What happens: be · To what, where: total genius

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lowkey	Lowkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 genius	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lowkey	appos
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 genius	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 genius	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 genius	amod
7	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cap	punct
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 cap	det
10	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 genius	appos
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 genius	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	Lowkey	a total genius					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

Yeah, he's a genius cos he tied the lion up and got the horse to run

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 genius	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 genius	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 genius	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 genius	det
6	genius	genius	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obl
7	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	9 tied	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 tied	nsubj
9	tied	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lion	det
11	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 tied	obj
12	up	up	ADP	_	9 tied	compound:prt
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 got	cc
14	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 tied	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 horse	det
16	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 got	obj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 run	mark
18	run	run	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 got	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a genius	tree rules
2	tie up	past	he	the lion	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient
3	get	past	he not said here	the horse	tree rules
4	run	to-infinitive	the horse not said here		vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he got tricked by the horse

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tricked	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tricked	aux:pass
5	tricked	trick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tricked	obl:agent

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past · passive	the horse	he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, the lion was the clever one, he ate the fox in the end

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 one	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lion	det
4	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 one	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 one	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
7	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 one	amod
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	nsubj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 ate	nsubj
11	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 fox	det
13	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 ate	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the lion	the clever one					tree rules
2	eat	past	the clever one	the fox			in the end		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he tricked the lion proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 tricked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tricked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 tricked	nsubj
4	tricked	trick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tricked	obj
7	proper	properly	ADV	_	4 tricked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	trick	past	he	the lion				properly property	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient

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