Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Grapes: a hungry Fox jumps…

what did the fox even say at the end, fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: fox, end · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fox	det
4	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	even	even	ADV	_	6 say	advmod
6	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 end	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 end	det
9	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 say	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 end	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the fox					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present					at the end and fr		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 · ← Mova's choice

that they were too green, whatever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 green	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 green	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 green	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 green	advmod
5	green	green	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whatever	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 green	punct
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					green property	tree rules

Option 2

that they were sour

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 sour	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sour	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sour	cop
4	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					sour property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

that they were quite sour, so who cares

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 sour	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sour	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sour	cop
4	quite	quite	ADV	_	5 sour	advmod
5	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cares	advcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sour	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	9 cares	advmod
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cares	nsubj
9	cares	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					sour property	tree rules
2	care	present							vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4

that they were rotten and gross

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 rotten	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 rotten	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 rotten	cop
4	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 gross	cc
6	gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 rotten	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					rotten property	tree rules
2	be		they not said here						tree rules

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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