Test 3 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Innit, what did the cock do wrong, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Innit · What happens: do

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Innit	Innit	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cock	det
6	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wrong	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wrong	aux
8	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 did	parataxis
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wrong	punct
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 did	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	Innit				then		vn act-114-1 «NP V»: 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

Bit too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 loud	obl:unmarked
2	too	too	ADV	_	3 loud	advmod
3	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Loads, it was rude

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 rude	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Loads	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rude	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rude	cop
5	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Nothing, it was just doing its job

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 doing	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 doing	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 doing	aux
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 doing	advmod
6	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Nothing	conj
7	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 job	nmod:poss
8	job	job	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 doing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past · progressive	it	its job					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent job=Eventuality
2	job		its = it						nom job «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4

It crowed far too loudly each day

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 crowed	nsubj
2	crowed	crow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 crowed	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loudly	advmod
5	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	2 crowed	advmod
6	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	7 day	det
7	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 crowed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crow	past	It				day	far, loudly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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