Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

Did the Miller tell the Horse to stop moaning about the past?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miller · What happens: tell, stop, moan · To what, where: Horse · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 146 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight short animal tales about greed, pride, and bad company» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Miller	det
3	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 tell	nsubj
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Horse	det
6	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 tell	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 stop	mark
8	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 tell	xcomp
9	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 stop	xcomp
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 past	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 past	det
12	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 moaning	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the Miller	the Horse		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent horse=Recipient clause=Topic
2	stop not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Miller not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
3	moan	gerund	the Miller not said here		about the past	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about past=Topic

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

Nah, he said stop the ups and downs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ups	det
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stop	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 downs	cc
9	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	stop	infinitive		the ups and downs					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality up=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he said take the ups and downs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ups	det
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 downs	cc
9	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		the ups and downs					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, he said take the ups and downs and stop moaning about the past

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ups	det
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 downs	cc
9	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 stop	cc
11	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres Typo=Yes VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
12	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 stop	xcomp
13	about	about	ADP	_	15 past	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 past	det
15	past	past	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 moaning	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		the ups and downs		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme
3	stop	present	he not said here			vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
4	moan	gerund	he not said here		about the past	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about past=Topic

Option 4

Nah, he said take the ups and downs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ups	det
7	ups	up	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 take	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 downs	cc
9	downs	down	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ups	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	take	infinitive		the ups and downs					vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent up=Theme

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