Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox: a sly Fox…

Bare long story, what was the wooden Mercury for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bare long story · What happens: be · To what, where: wooden Mercury

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
2	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 story	amod
3	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mercury	punct
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 Mercury	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Mercury	cop
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mercury	det
8	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mercury	amod
9	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 story	nmod
10	for	for	ADP	_	3 story	case
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 story	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	Bare long story	the wooden Mercury					tree rules

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

Selling it for some gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Selling	sell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Selling	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 gold	case
4	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	5 gold	det
5	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Selling	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	gerund		it				for some gold	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent it=Theme for gold=Asset

Option 2

He was going to flog it off at the market for a bit of quick cash

The tree, 16 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	3 going	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 going	aux
3	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 flog	mark
5	flog	flog	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 going	xcomp
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flog	obj
7	off	off	ADP	_	5 flog	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 market	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 market	det
10	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flog	obl
11	for	for	ADP	_	13 bit	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 bit	det
13	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flog	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cash	case
15	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cash	amod
16	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	He						vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	flog off	to-infinitive	He not said here	it		the market		for a bit of quick cash	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient at market=Location

Option 3

Flogging it at the market for quick cash to buy food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flogging	flog	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flogging	obj
3	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 market	det
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flogging	obl
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cash	case
7	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 cash	amod
8	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flogging	obl
9	to	to	PART	_	10 buy	mark
10	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Flogging	advcl
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 buy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flog	gerund		it		the market		for quick cash	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient at market=Location
2	buy	to-infinitive		food					vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Flogging it for quick cash

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flogging	flog	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Flogging	obj
3	for	for	ADP	_	5 cash	case
4	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 cash	amod
5	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Flogging	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flog	gerund		it				for quick cash	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for cash=Beneficiary

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