Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

The Stork says it's the most honest bird ever, but nobody believed it, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Stork, nobody · What happens: say, be, believe · To what, where: honest bird, Stork · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 12 · ★ 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 Stork	det
2	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	nsubj
3	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bird	nsubj
5	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 bird	cop
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
7	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	8 honest	advmod
8	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 bird	amod
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 says	ccomp
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 bird	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believed	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 believed	cc
13	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	14 believed	nsubj
14	believed	believe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 says	ccomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 believed	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 believed	punct
17	right	right	INTJ	_	3 says	discourse
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Stork			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	is a	present	Stork	the honest bird	ever	tree rules
3	believe	past	nobody	Stork		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, bad company means you look bad, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 company	amod
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bad company						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	you					bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, good company means you look good, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 means	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 company	amod
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	good company						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	you					good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, bad company means you look bad, mate, and the Stork should know it

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 bad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 company	amod
4	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 means	nsubj
5	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	7 look	nsubj
7	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 means	ccomp
8	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 look	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 look	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 know	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 know	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Stork	det
14	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 know	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 know	aux
16	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 means	conj
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 know	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	mean	present	bad company			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look	present	you		mate vocative; bad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
3	know	should	the Stork	company		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 4

Nah, the Stork was honest and nobody doubted it, so good company means you look good, mate

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 honest	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Stork	det
4	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 honest	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	cop
6	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 doubted	cc
8	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	9 doubted	nsubj
9	doubted	doubt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	conj
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doubted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 means	punct
12	so	so	ADV	_	15 means	advmod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 company	amod
14	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 means	nsubj
15	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 honest	conj
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 look	nsubj
17	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 means	ccomp
18	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 look	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 mate	punct
20	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 honest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Stork		honest property	tree rules
2	doubt	past	nobody	Stork		vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	mean	present	good company			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	look	present	you		good property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus

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