Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

Crow dropping stones in a jug, how did that help her?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Crow · What happens: drop, help · To what, where: stones, jug, her

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 134 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as a doctor is turned away, and eight more short fables follow» 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	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 help	nsubj
2	dropping	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Crow	acl
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dropping	obj
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 jug	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jug	det
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 dropping	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 help	advmod
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 help	aux
10	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 help	nsubj
11	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 help	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund	Crow not said here	stones		a jug			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stone=Theme in jug=Destination
2	help	past · do-support	Crow		her = she				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

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

Water fell

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fell	nsubj
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	Water						vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

It drowned

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 drowned	nsubj
2	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drown	past	It						vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

The water rose up to the top

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 water	det
2	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	nsubj
3	rose	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	up	up	ADP	_	3 rose	compound:prt
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 top	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 top	det
7	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rose	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rise up	past	the water			the top			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to top=Initial_Location

Option 4

The pebbles sank below the jug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 pebbles	det
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 sank	nsubj
3	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	below	below	ADP	_	6 jug	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 jug	det
6	jug	jug	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sank	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sink	past	the pebbles			the jug			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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