Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Dog and the Cook, part 8: a dog is thr…

The owl was well wise, right, but the birds just laughed at her?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: owl, birds · What happens: be, laugh

This is test 11 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 owl	det
2	owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wise	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	cop
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 wise	advmod
5	wise	wise	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wise	punct
7	right	right	INTJ	_	5 wise	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 laughed	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 laughed	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 birds	det
11	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 laughed	nsubj
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 laughed	advmod
13	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wise	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 her	case
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 laughed	obl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wise	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the owl					well, wise property	tree rules
2	laugh	past	the birds					at her = she	vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «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

Yeah, till the storm came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	6 came	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 storm	det
5	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the storm						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, till everything came true

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 came	mark
4	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 came	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	everything					true property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Nah, they believed her in the end

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 believed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	nsubj
4	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 believed	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 end	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 end	det
8	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	believe	past	they	her = she			in the end		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus

Option 4

Yeah, till it rained

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 rained	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 rained	punct
3	till	till	SCONJ	_	5 rained	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 rained	nsubj
5	rained	rain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rain	past	it						vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»

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