Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

Lol, the lamp reckoned it was brighter than the sun, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: lamp · What happens: reckon, be

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 138 «Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thrown out of a feast, a vain Monkey is trapped, and more short fables» 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 lamp	det
4	lamp	lamp	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckoned	nsubj
5	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brighter	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 brighter	cop
8	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 reckoned	ccomp
9	than	than	ADP	_	11 sun	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sun	det
11	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 brighter	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct
13	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 reckoned	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past	the lamp						vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	lamp					than the sun; bright property	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

Nah, the sun took the light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 took	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sun	det
4	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	nsubj
5	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 light	det
7	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 took	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sun	the light					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent light=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, then the rain put it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 put	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 put	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 put	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 rain	det
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 put	nsubj
6	put	put	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 put	obj
8	out	out	ADP	_	6 put	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put out	past	the rain	it			then		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and then a puff of wind blew it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	9 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 blew	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blew	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 blew	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 puff	det
6	puff	puff	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 blew	nsubj
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 wind	case
8	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 puff	nmod
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 blew	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 blew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	past	a puff of wind	wind			then		vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	puff			wind					nom puff «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

Option 4

Yeah, a gust blew it out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 blew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 blew	punct
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 gust	det
4	gust	gust	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 blew	nsubj
5	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 blew	obj
7	out	out	ADP	_	5 blew	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow out	past	a gust	it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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