Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Yo, the donkey flopped in the river twice, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: flop · To what, where: river

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 137 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey tries to cheat his master with salt and sponges» 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 flopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flopped	nsubj
5	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 river	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 river	det
8	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flopped	obl
9	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 flopped	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flopped	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	5 flopped	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 flopped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	past	the donkey			the river		twice property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in river=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 right answer

Yeah, and the bloke twigged it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 twigged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 twigged	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 twigged	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 twigged	nsubj
6	twigged	twig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 twigged	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	twig	past	the bloke	it					tree rules

Option 2

Nope, once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 once	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	root	root

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

Option 3

Nah, the donkey fell once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fell	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 donkey	det
4	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fell	nsubj
5	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the donkey					once property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, but the bloke missed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 missed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 missed	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 missed	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 bloke	det
5	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 missed	nsubj
6	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	the bloke	it					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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