Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

Man, the Grasshopper was singing all summer and then begged the Ants, no cap?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Grasshopper, Man · What happens: sing, beg · To what, where: Man, Ants

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 singing	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Grasshopper	det
4	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 singing	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 singing	aux
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Man	acl:relcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 summer	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obl:unmarked
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 begged	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 begged	advmod
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ants	det
13	Ants	Ant	PROPN	Number=Plur	11 begged	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 cap	punct
15	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	16 cap	det
16	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 Ants	appos
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 begged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past · progressive	the Grasshopper	Man not said here			summer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location man=Theme
2	beg speech: request	past	Man		the Ants		then		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ant=Recipient

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, they gave him some corn and told him to sing a bit more, no cap

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 corn	det
7	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 told	cc
9	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gave	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 told	iobj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sing	mark
12	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 told	xcomp
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 bit	det
14	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 more	obl:unmarked
15	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 sing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 cap	punct
17	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	18 cap	det
18	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	give	past	they	some corn	him = he	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient corn=Theme
2	tell speech: assert	past	they not said here		him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	sing speech: express not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here	more		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location more=Theme

Option 2

Yeah, and they told him to beg, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 beg	mark
8	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they	no cap	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	beg speech: request not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and they told him to dance, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dance	mark
8	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 cap	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 cap	det
11	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they	no cap	him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	no cap not said here						vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yeah, and they told him to dance all winter long, no cap, innit

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 told	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 told	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 told	cc
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	nsubj
5	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 told	iobj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 dance	mark
8	dance	dance	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 told	xcomp
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 winter	det
10	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 dance	obj
11	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dance	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 cap	punct
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 cap	det
14	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 told	parataxis
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 innit	punct
16	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	they		him = he				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	dance not said to happen	to-infinitive	they not said here				winter	long property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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