Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a to…

fam, which mouse was the real winner at the end, the one who stayed in town or the one who went home

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: fam, one · What happens: be, stay, go · To what, where: real winner, end, town

This is test 7 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mouse	punct
3	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	4 mouse	det
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fam	appos
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 winner	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 winner	det
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 winner	amod
8	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 end	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 end	det
11	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 one	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 one	det
14	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	appos
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 stayed	nsubj
16	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 one	acl:relcl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 town	case
18	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stayed	obl
19	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 one	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 winner	conj
22	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 went	nsubj
23	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 one	acl:relcl
24	home	home	ADV	_	23 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	fam	the real winner or the one		at the end		tree rules
2	stay	past	the one		town			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in town=Location
3	go	past	the one				home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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 one who stayed there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 stayed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the one			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

the one who went back home to the fields and his simple life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 fields	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fields	det
9	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 life	cc
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 one	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	the one and his simple life					to the fields result; home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to field=Result

Option 3

the one who stayed put

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the one						tree rules
2	put	participle	the one not said here						vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the one who went home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 one	acl:relcl
5	home	home	ADV	_	4 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the one					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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