Test 4 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

So the horse just lay there all stiff, playing dead, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: horse · What happens: lie, play · To what, where: all

This is test 4 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 horse	det
3	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 lay	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 lay	advmod
5	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 lay	advmod
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 lay	obj
8	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 all	amod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 playing	punct
10	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 lay	advcl
11	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 playing	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 dead	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 playing	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 lay	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	the horse	all		there			vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location all=Theme
2	play	gerund	the horse not said here					dead property	vn performance-26.7-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, like proper dead, no moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 dead	case
4	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dead	amod
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moving	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 moving	det
8	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dead	conj

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

Option 2

Nah, he was actually dead, the lion got him proper for dinner

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dead	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dead	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	cop
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 dead	advmod
6	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 got	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 lion	det
9	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	nsubj
10	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dead	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 got	obj
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 got	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 dinner	case
14	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 got	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					actually, dead property	tree rules
2	get	past	the lion	him = he				for dinner; properly property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent he=Theme for dinner=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yep, he stayed still, no moving

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	still	still	ADV	_	4 stayed	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 moving	punct
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 moving	det
8	moving	moving	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he	no moving			still		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yep, he lay there all stiff and just pretended to be dead, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 lay	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 lay	nsubj
4	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 lay	advmod
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 stiff	det
7	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lay	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 pretended	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 pretended	advmod
10	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lay	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	13 dead	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 dead	cop
13	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 pretended	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 innit	punct
15	innit	innit	INTJ	_	4 lay	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he	there	stiff property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pretend	past	he not said here			tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		dead property	tree rules

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