Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat disguised as…

That swallow thing, was the bloke daft for ditching his coat?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: That, bloke · What happens: swallow, be, ditch · To what, where: thing, coat

This is test 3 · ★ 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 swallow	nsubj
2	swallow	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallow	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 daft	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 daft	nsubj
8	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallow	advcl
9	for	for	SCONJ	_	10 ditching	mark
10	ditching	ditch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 daft	advcl
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 coat	nmod:poss
12	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ditching	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 swallow	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	swallow	present	That	thing		vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Patient
2	is	past	the bloke		daft property	tree rules
3	ditch	gerund	the bloke not said here	his coat		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

Yeah, he thought summer had landed early, so he sold his coat for nothing

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 landed	aux
7	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 landed	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sold	punct
10	so	so	ADV	_	12 sold	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sold	nsubj
12	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 thought	conj
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coat	nmod:poss
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sold	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	16 nothing	case
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	land	past · perfect	summer		early property	vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sell	past	he	his coat	for nothing	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent coat=Theme for nothing=Asset

Option 2

Yeah, he reckoned winter had gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reckoned	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gone	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 gone	aux
7	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 reckoned	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	he						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	go	past · perfect	winter						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he thought summer had landed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 landed	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 landed	aux
7	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	land	past · perfect	summer						vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, he was daft, thought summer had landed and then the frost came and he froze

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 daft	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 daft	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 daft	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daft	cop
5	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 thought	punct
7	thought	think	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 daft	conj
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 landed	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 landed	aux
10	landed	land	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 thought	xcomp
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 came	cc
12	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 came	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 frost	det
14	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 came	nsubj
15	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daft	conj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 froze	cc
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 froze	nsubj
18	froze	freeze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 daft	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		daft property	tree rules
2	think speech: other	participle	he not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	land	past · perfect	summer			vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	come	past	the frost	then		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	freeze	past	frost			vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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