Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

ngl the fox ate so much bread in that tree he got stuck, what was the other fox like

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: ngl · What happens: eat, get, be · To what, where: much bread, tree, other fox

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 fox	det
3	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 ngl	appos
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bread	amod
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 tree	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 tree	det
10	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	parataxis
13	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 got	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 fox	punct
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	19 fox	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 fox	cop
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 fox	det
18	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 fox	amod
19	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 stuck	conj
20	like	like	ADP	_	13 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	eat	past	ngl	much bread	that tree		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient
2	get	past	ngl			stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past		the other fox			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 · ✓ the right answer

told him to wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 told	iobj
3	to	to	PART	_	4 wait	mark
4	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 told	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past			him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	wait not said to happen	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

wait

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

say nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	say	say	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	1 say	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	imperative	you not said here	nothing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic

Option 4

helped him climb out

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 helped	obj
3	climb	climb	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 helped	xcomp
4	out	out	ADP	_	3 climb	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past		him = he					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary clause=Theme
2	climb out	infinitive	him = he not said here						vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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