Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

lowkey that boy got stung cos he touched the nettle soft, what did his mum say

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: boy, lowkey · What happens: sting, touch, do, say · To what, where: lowkey, nettle, mum · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	lowkey	lowkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	nsubj
2	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 stung	nsubj:pass
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stung	nsubj:pass
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stung	aux:pass
5	stung	sting	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 lowkey	acl:relcl
6	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	8 touched	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 touched	nsubj
8	touched	touch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stung	advcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 nettle	det
10	nettle	nettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 touched	obj
11	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 touched	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 did	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 did	nsubj
14	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mum	nmod:poss
16	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 did	obj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sting	past · passive		lowkey		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	touch	past	boy	the nettle	soft property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme nettle=Co-Theme
3	do	past	lowkey	boy's mum		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mum=Eventuality
4	say speech: assert	present				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=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 · ✓ the right answer

grab it firm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 grab	obj
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 grab	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it				firm property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

grab it firm with his whole hand, not soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 grab	obj
3	firm	firm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 grab	xcomp
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 hand	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hand	nmod:poss
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 hand	amod
7	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grab	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 soft	punct
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 soft	advmod
10	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 grab	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	it				with his whole hand; firm property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

pinch it soft

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	pinch	pinch	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 pinch	obj
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 pinch	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pinch	imperative	you not said here	it				soft property	vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

hold it light

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hold	obj
3	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hold	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold	imperative	you not said here	it					vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme light=Eventuality

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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