Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass w…

Yo, which reeds came through the storm with no bother?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: reed, come · To what, where: storm

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 136 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and the Lap-dog: the jealous Ass wrecks the master's dinner and is beaten» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 reeds	punct
3	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 reeds	nsubj
4	reeds	reed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Yo	conj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	through	through	ADP	_	8 storm	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 storm	det
8	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 bother	case
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 bother	det
11	bother	bother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 storm	nmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reed	present							tree rules
2	come	past				the storm with no bother			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through storm=Initial_Location

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 dry ones by the bank

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 bank	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bank	det
6	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ones	nmod

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

Option 2

The bendy ones that yielded to the wind and survived the storm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 yielded	nsubj
5	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ones	acl:relcl
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 wind	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 wind	det
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yielded	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 survived	cc
10	survived	survive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 yielded	conj
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 storm	det
12	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 survived	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yield	past	the bendy ones					to the wind	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to wind=Theme
2	survive	past	the bendy ones not said here	the storm					vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme storm=Circumstance

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The bendy ones that yielded

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	bendy	bendy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 yielded	nsubj
5	yielded	yield	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yield	past	the bendy ones						vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

The thick ones that stood

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 ones	det
2	thick	thick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 ones	amod
3	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stood	nsubj
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 ones	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	the thick ones						vn assuming_position-50 «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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