Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

lowkey gutted for the country mouse, right? what did the town mouse promise him

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: town mouse · What happens: gut, promise · To what, where: him

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 145 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a town visit ends in fright» 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	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	2 gutted	advmod
2	gutted	gut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 promise	advcl
3	for	for	ADP	_	6 mouse	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 mouse	det
5	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mouse	compound
6	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gutted	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mouse	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	2 gutted	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gutted	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	15 promise	obj
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 promise	aux
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 mouse	det
13	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 mouse	compound
14	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 promise	nsubj
15	promise	promise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 promise	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gut	participle	the town mouse not said here					for the country mouse; lowkey property	vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	promise speech: promise	past · do-support	the town mouse		him = he				vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent what=Goal he=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

to live on the fat of the land

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 live	mark
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 fat	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fat	det
5	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 live	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fat	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	to-infinitive				the fat of the land			vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fat=Location

Option 2

to give him all the best food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 give	mark
2	give	give	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 give	iobj
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 food	det:predet
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
6	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 give	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive		all best food	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme

Option 3

to visit loads

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 visit	mark
2	visit	visit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	loads	load	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 visit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	visit	to-infinitive		loads					vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent load=Co-Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

to feed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 feed	mark
2	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	to-infinitive			him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

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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