Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

no cap the sparrows begged him, what did they want

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap, sparrows · What happens: beg, want · To what, where: him

This is test 6 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 begged	nsubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sparrows	det
4	sparrows	sparrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 begged	nsubj
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 want	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 want	obj
9	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 want	aux
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 want	nsubj
11	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	no cap		him = he				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
2	want	past · do-support	sparrows = sparrow						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot what=Theme

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

leave the tree alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leave	obj
4	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 leave	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the tree				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme

Option 2

leave the old tree alone and let the bees keep their hive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leave	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 leave	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 leave	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bees	det
9	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 keep	nsubj
10	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	ccomp
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 hive	nmod:poss
12	hive	hive	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 keep	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the old tree	alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here			tree rules
3	keep	present	the bees	bees's hive		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Theme

Option 3

water the tree well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 tree	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 tree	det
3	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 tree	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

leave the old tree alone and let the birds nest there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 tree	det
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 tree	amod
4	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 leave	obj
5	alone	alone	ADV	_	1 leave	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 let	cc
7	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 leave	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 birds	det
9	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 nest	nsubj
10	nest	nest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 let	ccomp
11	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 nest	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	imperative	you not said here	the old tree		alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	let	infinitive	you not said here				tree rules
3	nest	present	the birds		there		vn berry-13.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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