Test 15 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

Boys chucking stones at frogs, what did a frog say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Boys · What happens: chuck, say · To what, where: stones · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 15 · ★ 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	Boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 say	nsubj
2	chucking	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Boys	acl
3	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucking	obj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 frogs	case
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chucking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 say	obj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 say	aux
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 frog	det
10	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 say	nsubj
11	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	gerund	Boys not said here	stones				at frogs	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at frog=Destination
2	say speech: assert	past · do-support	Boys						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

Stop, it's death to us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 death	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 death	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 death	cop
5	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		us				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present	it	death					tree rules

Option 2

Stop, you're hurting us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hurting	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 hurting	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 hurting	aux
5	hurting	hurt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Stop	advcl
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 hurting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	hurt	present · progressive	you	us					vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer we=Patient

Option 3

Stop, it's a game for you but death to us, so please stop now

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 game	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 game	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 game	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 game	det
6	game	game	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Stop	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 game	nmod
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 death	cc
10	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 game	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 us	case
12	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Stop	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 stop	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	16 stop	advmod
15	please	please	INTJ	_	16 stop	discourse
16	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Stop	conj
17	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	16 stop	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	stop	imperative	you not said here		us			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
2	is a	present	it	a game but death			for you	tree rules
3	stop	infinitive	you not said here			now		vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

Option 4

Please, you're killing us

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Please	please	INTJ	_	5 killing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Please	punct
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 killing	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 killing	aux
5	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 killing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	present · progressive	you	us					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme

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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