Test 13 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Is "thrifty" like being a total cheapskate or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 135 «Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock and wake up even earlier» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 thrifty	cop
2	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thrifty	punct
3	thrifty	thrifty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 thrifty	punct
5	like	like	ADP	_	9 cheapskate	case
6	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 cheapskate	cop
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cheapskate	det
8	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cheapskate	amod
9	cheapskate	cheapskate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thrifty	obl
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 cheapskate	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 thrifty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present						thrifty property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						like a total cheapskate	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, it means being a cheapskate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 cheapskate	cop
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cheapskate	det
7	cheapskate	cheapskate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 means	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	gerund		a cheapskate					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, it's mean

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 mean	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mean	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 mean	cop
5	mean	mean	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it means careful not to waste stuff

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 means	xcomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 waste	advmod
7	to	to	PART	_	8 waste	mark
8	waste	waste	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 careful	advcl
9	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 waste	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	it					careful property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
2	not waste	to-infinitive		stuff					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stuff=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it means hating to spend a bit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 means	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 means	nsubj
4	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	hating	hate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 means	ccomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 spend	mark
7	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 hating	xcomp
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 bit	det
9	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 spend	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	mean	present	it		vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	hate	gerund			vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	spend not said to happen	to-infinitive		a bit	vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Asset

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