Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, pa…

Yo, why'd the Tortoise get dropped out the sky?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: drop out · To what, where: Tortoise

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 140 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Boar and other fables, part 10: animals and a Man quarrel, learn small lessons and get their comeuppance» 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	_	8 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 dropped	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 Tortoise	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tortoise	det
6	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 dropped	nsubj:pass
7	get	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dropped	aux:pass
8	dropped	drop	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	out	out	ADP	_	8 dropped	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 sky	det
11	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dropped	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 dropped	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop out	present · passive		the Tortoise					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme sky=Destination

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

He begged the Eagle to take him to the top of the mountain so he could see the view from the air

The tree, 22 words

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 take	mark
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	ccomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 take	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 top	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 top	det
10	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 take	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 mountain	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mountain	det
13	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 top	nmod
14	so	so	SCONJ	_	17 see	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 see	nsubj
16	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 see	aux
17	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 take	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 view	det
19	view	view	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 air	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 air	det
22	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 see	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He		the Eagle		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take not said to happen	to-infinitive		Eagle		the top of the mountain	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to top=Destination
3	see	could	Eagle	the view		the air	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer view=Stimulus

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

He begged the Hawk to teach him swimming

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hawk	det
4	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 teach	mark
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teach	obj
8	swimming	swimming	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teach	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He		the Hawk				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent hawk=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here	swimming	Hawk				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient swimming=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

He begged the Eagle to teach him flying

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 teach	mark
6	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 teach	obj
8	flying	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 teach	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He	the Eagle	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient
2	teach speech: other	to-infinitive	He not said here	Eagle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	fly	gerund	He not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

He begged the Eagle to carry him

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 begged	nsubj
2	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 begged	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 carry	mark
6	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 begged	advcl
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 carry	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	He		the Eagle				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient
2	carry	to-infinitive	He not said here	Eagle					vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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