Test 7 · ★ · Aesop, The Mistress and Her Servants: they kill the cock a…

Sus, did the servants think it would work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Sus, servants · What happens: do, think, work · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sus	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 servants	det
5	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 think	nsubj
6	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	parataxis
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 work	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 work	aux
9	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 think	ccomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	Sus	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	think speech: other	present	the servants	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	work	would	Sus	vn employment-95.3 «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

Nah, they thought it would be a disaster

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 disaster	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 disaster	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 disaster	cop
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 disaster	det
9	disaster	disaster	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	they						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is a	would	it	a disaster					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, they reckoned they'd get more sleep and the Widow would never find out about it

The tree, 17 words

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sleep	amod
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 find	cc
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Widow	det
12	Widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 find	nsubj
13	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	15 find	advmod
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 get	conj
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 find	compound:prt
17	about	about	ADP	_	18 it	case
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they			vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	would	they	more sleep		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus
3	not find out	would	the Widow		about sleep	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they reckoned they'd get more sleep

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	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 reckoned	nsubj
4	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 get	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 get	aux
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 reckoned	ccomp
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 sleep	amod
9	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 get	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	they						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	get	would	they	more sleep					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sleep=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, they didn't think about it at all and just acted on impulse without any planning

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 think	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	nsubj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 think	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 think	advmod
6	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	about	about	ADP	_	8 it	case
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 think	obl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 all	case
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 think	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 acted	cc
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 acted	advmod
13	acted	act	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 think	conj
14	on	on	ADP	_	15 impulse	case
15	impulse	impulse	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acted	obl
16	without	without	ADP	_	18 planning	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 planning	det
18	planning	planning	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 acted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not think speech: other	past · do-support	they			all		about it	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about it=Topic
2	act	participle	they not said here			impulse		without any planning	vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on impulse=Eventuality

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