Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

Did the Owl just invite the Grasshopper round for a sip of nectar?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: invite, sip · To what, where: Owl, nectar

This is test 3 · ★ 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 Owl	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Owl	det
3	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obl
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 invite	advmod
5	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 round	det
7	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 round	compound
8	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 sip	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 sip	det
11	sip	sip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 invite	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 nectar	case
13	nectar	nectar	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sip	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 invite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	invite	present		the Owl				for a sip of nectar	vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent round=Recipient
2	sip			nectar					nom sip «act transitive»: of=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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, she just dozed off, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dozed	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dozed	advmod
5	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 dozed	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dozed	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	she					mate vocative	vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, and then she munched him right up, sus, no cap, innit

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 munched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 munched	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 munched	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 munched	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 munched	nsubj
6	munched	munch	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 munched	obj
8	right	right	ADV	_	9 up	advmod
9	up	up	ADV	_	6 munched	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sus	punct
11	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 munched	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sus	appos
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sus	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	munch	past	she	him = he			then		vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yeah, and then she dozed off, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 dozed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 dozed	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dozed	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 dozed	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dozed	nsubj
6	dozed	doze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 dozed	compound:prt
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct
9	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dozed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	doze off	past	she	sus			then		vn change_bodily_state-40.8.4 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and then she munched him, sus

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 munched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 munched	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 munched	cc
4	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 munched	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 munched	nsubj
6	munched	munch	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 munched	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 sus	punct
9	sus	sus	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 munched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	munch	past	she	him = he			then	sus obl	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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