Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

wait the boy grabbed too many filberts and got his hand stuck, what did the bystander say

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, boy, bystander · What happens: wait, grab, get, say · To what, where: many filberts, hand · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 139 «Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short animal tales, each ending with a lesson» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grabbed	nsubj
4	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	parataxis
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 many	advmod
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 filberts	amod
7	filberts	filbert	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 grabbed	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 got	cc
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 grabbed	conj
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hand	nmod:poss
11	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
12	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 got	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 say	punct
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	18 say	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 say	aux
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 bystander	det
17	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 say	nsubj
18	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 wait	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	grab	past	the boy	many filberts		vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent filbert=Theme
3	get	past	the boy not said here	boy's hand	stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hand=Stimulus
4	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the bystander			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

take half and then ask his mother for more nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 take	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 take	conj
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 mother	nmod:poss
7	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 nuts	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 nuts	amod
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	half					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		his mother		then	for more nuts	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mother=Recipient

Option 2

count them again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 count	obj
3	again	again	ADV	_	1 count	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	imperative	you not said here	them = they			again		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3

take half and then ask the bystander for more nuts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	1 take	obj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 ask	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 ask	advmod
5	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 take	conj
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bystander	det
7	bystander	bystander	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ask	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 nuts	case
9	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	10 nuts	amod
10	nuts	nut	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 ask	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	half					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent half=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here	the bystander			then	for more nuts	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bystander=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

take half the amount

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	4 amount	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 amount	det
4	amount	amount	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 take	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	imperative	you not said here	half amount					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent amount=Theme

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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