Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Oi, why did the Satyr dip out on his mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Satyr · What happens: dip out · To what, where: mate

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 dip	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 dip	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dip	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Satyr	det
6	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 dip	nsubj
7	dip	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Oi	conj
8	out	out	ADP	_	7 dip	compound:prt
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 mate	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mate	nmod:poss
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dip	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Oi	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip out	past · do-support	the Satyr			Satyr's mate			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent on mate=Trajectory

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 man blew hot to warm his hands and cold to cool his porridge, the Satyr said

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	xcomp
5	to	to	PART	_	6 warm	mark
6	warm	warm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 hot	advcl
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 warm	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 cold	cc
10	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 cool	mark
12	cool	cool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 cold	advcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 porridge	nmod:poss
14	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cool	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Satyr	det
17	Satyr	Satyr	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 blew	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the man		hot property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
2	warm	to-infinitive	the man not said here	man's hands		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hand=Patient
3	cool	to-infinitive	the man not said here	man's porridge		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent porridge=Patient
4	say speech: assert	past	the Satyr			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The man kept blowing hot and cold with the same breath, which was odd

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	blowing	blow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 kept	xcomp
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 blowing	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 cold	cc
7	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	conj
8	with	with	ADP	_	11 breath	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 breath	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breath	amod
11	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 blowing	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 odd	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 odd	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 odd	cop
15	odd	odd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 breath	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the man		tree rules
2	blow	gerund	the man not said here	with the same breath; hot property	vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme»: with breath=Theme
3	is	past	the same breath	odd property	tree rules

Option 3

He blew on his porridge

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 blew	nsubj
2	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 porridge	case
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 porridge	nmod:poss
5	porridge	porridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 blew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	He			his porridge			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

The man blew hot and cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 man	det
2	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blew	nsubj
3	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 blew	xcomp
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 cold	cc
6	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 hot	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	blow	past	the man					hot property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

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