Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Burdens: a clever donkey t…

Mate, wasn't the sponge plan proper clever?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: not be · To what, where: sponge plan

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Mate	punct
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 plan	cop
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 plan	advmod
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 plan	det
6	sponge	sponge	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 plan	compound
7	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 clever	advmod
9	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 plan	nmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 plan	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	past		the sponge plan				Mate vocative; clever nmod	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 worked a treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 worked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 worked	nsubj
4	worked	work	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 treat	det
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 worked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	work	past	it	a treat					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent treat=Material

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it backfired big time

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 backfired	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 backfired	nsubj
4	backfired	backfire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 time	amod
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 backfired	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	backfire	past	it				time		tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, it was brilliant because the bloke never noticed anything at all until the end

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 brilliant	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 brilliant	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brilliant	cop
5	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	10 noticed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bloke	det
8	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noticed	nsubj
9	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	10 noticed	advmod
10	noticed	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 brilliant	advcl
11	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	10 noticed	obj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 all	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 anything	nmod
14	until	until	ADP	_	16 end	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 end	det
16	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 noticed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					brilliant property	tree rules
2	not notice	past	the bloke	anything		all	until the end		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer anything=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, it was quite dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 dumb	advmod
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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