Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Bruv, what did the old lady sniff at for ages?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: old lady sniff

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 142 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox steals a kid while two beasts lie wounded» 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	Bruv	Bruv	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruv	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sniff	det
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 sniff	amod
7	lady	lady	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sniff	compound
8	sniff	sniff	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
9	at	at	ADP	_	8 sniff	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 ages	case
11	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the old lady sniff			for ages	Bruv vocative	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sniff=Eventuality

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

A wine-jar with nothing left in it at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 jar	det
2	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 jar	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 wine	punct
4	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 nothing	case
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 jar	nmod
7	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 nothing	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 left	obl
10	at	at	ADP	_	11 all	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 left	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle				jar		at all	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in it=Result

Option 2

A big old wine-jar that was empty and dusty on the shelf

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 jar	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jar	amod
3	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jar	amod
4	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 jar	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 wine	punct
6	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 empty	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 empty	cop
9	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 jar	acl:relcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 dusty	cc
11	dusty	dusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 empty	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 shelf	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 shelf	det
14	shelf	shelf	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 empty	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	a big old wine jar			the shelf		empty property	tree rules
2	be		a big old wine jar not said here						tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

An empty wine-jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jar	det
2	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 jar	amod
3	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jar	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 wine	punct
5	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

An empty beer-mug

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 mug	det
2	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 mug	amod
3	beer	beer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mug	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 beer	punct
5	mug	mug	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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