Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Quack Frog, part 9: a run of short ani…

yo the jackdaw painted himself white, what dumb thing did he do to get caught

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: jackdaw, dumb thing · What happens: paint, do, catch · To what, where: jackdaw

This is test 8 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	4 painted	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackdaw	det
3	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 painted	nsubj
4	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 painted	obj
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 painted	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 do	punct
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 do	obj
9	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 thing	amod
10	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 do	nsubj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 do	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 do	nsubj
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 painted	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	16 caught	mark
15	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	16 caught	aux:pass
16	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 do	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	paint	past	the jackdaw	jackdaw	white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
2	do	past · do-support	dumb thing			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	catch	to-infinitive · passive	dumb thing not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»

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

he started laughing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 started	nsubj
2	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	laughing	laugh	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 started	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past	he						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	laugh	gerund	he not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

started chattering

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	chattering	chattering	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 started	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	start	past		chattering					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chattering=Eventuality

Option 3

he opened his beak and started chattering loudly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 opened	nsubj
2	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 beak	nmod:poss
4	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 opened	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 started	cc
6	started	start	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 opened	conj
7	chattering	chatter	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 started	xcomp
8	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	7 chattering	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	he	his beak		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beak=Theme
2	start	past	he not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	chatter	gerund	he not said here		loudly property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

he began to speak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 began	nsubj
2	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 speak	mark
4	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 began	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	begin	past	he						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn talk-37.5 «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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