Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

The Cobbler said he had a cure for every poison, yeah, the big fibber?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Cobbler · What happens: say, have · To what, where: cure · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cobbler	det
2	Cobbler	Cobbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 said	ccomp
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cure	det
7	cure	cure	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 poison	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 poison	det
10	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 cure	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fibber	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	16 fibber	discourse
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fibber	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fibber	det
15	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fibber	amod
16	fibber	fibber	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Cobbler						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	Cobbler	a cure				for every poison	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cure=Patient

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

Yeah, and the King made him drink it, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 made	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 made	nsubj
6	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 made	obj
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 made	xcomp
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drink	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 made	punct
11	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 made	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the King	him = he					tree rules
2	drink	infinitive	him = he not said here	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

Nah, he drank it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, and the King drank it, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 drank	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drank	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drank	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 drank	nsubj
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 drank	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 drank	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 drank	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	the King	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4

Nah, and the King shot him, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 shot	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shot	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 shot	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 King	det
5	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 shot	nsubj
6	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shot	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 shot	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 shot	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	past	the King	him = he					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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