Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

so the grapes were up on a trellis, like a fancy fence, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: grapes · What happens: be · To what, where: trellis

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 133 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps for grapes he cannot reach and walks off, calling them sour» 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	_	8 trellis	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 grapes	det
3	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trellis	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 trellis	cop
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 were	compound:prt
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 trellis	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trellis	det
8	trellis	trellis	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fence	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	13 fence	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 fence	det
12	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 fence	amod
13	fence	fence	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trellis	parataxis
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fence	punct
15	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	13 fence	discourse
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 trellis	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the grapes			a trellis			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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, a high frame the vine climbs on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	8 climbs	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 frame	det
4	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frame	amod
5	frame	frame	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbs	obl:unmarked
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 vine	det
7	vine	vine	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbs	nsubj
8	climbs	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	on	on	ADV	_	8 climbs	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	climb	present	the vine	a high frame					vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yep, a wooden bench for the grapes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 bench	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bench	det
4	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 bench	amod
5	bench	bench	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 grapes	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 grapes	det
8	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 bench	nmod

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

Option 3

nah, it's a tall tree trunk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 trunk	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trunk	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 trunk	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 trunk	det
6	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 trunk	amod
7	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 trunk	compound
8	trunk	trunk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	it	a tall tree trunk					tree rules

Option 4

nah, a kind of cage

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 kind	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 kind	det
4	kind	kind	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 cage	case
6	cage	cage	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 kind	nmod

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

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