Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork, part 16: eight s…

That Bald Man smacked himself trying to get the Fly, dead funny?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Bald Man · What happens: smack, try, get · To what, where: Man, Fly

This is test 9 · ★ 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	That	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 Man	nsubj
2	Bald	bald	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 smacked	nsubj
4	smacked	smack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 smacked	obj
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 smacked	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 get	mark
8	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 trying	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fly	det
10	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 get	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 funny	punct
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 funny	amod
13	funny	funny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 Fly	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 smacked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	smack	past	Bald Man	Man	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient
2	try	gerund	Bald Man not said here		vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	Bald Man not said here	the Fly	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=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

Yeah, he hit himself harder than the Fly and then fell right over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 hit	obj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hit	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Fly	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fly	det
9	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 harder	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fell	cc
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 fell	advmod
12	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 hit	conj
13	right	right	ADV	_	14 over	advmod
14	over	over	ADV	_	12 fell	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	himself = he				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Co-Theme
2	fall	past	he not said here				then	over property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, he missed the Fly completely here

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 missed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 missed	nsubj
4	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fly	det
6	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 missed	obj
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 here	advmod
8	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 missed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	miss	past	he	the Fly		here			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus

Option 3

Yeah, he got the Fly and missed himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 got	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 got	nsubj
4	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Fly	det
6	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 got	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 missed	cc
8	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 got	conj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 missed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	he	the Fly					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fly=Stimulus
2	miss	past	he not said here	Fly					vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he hit himself harder than the Fly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 hit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hit	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 hit	nsubj
4	hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 hit	obj
6	harder	hard	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 hit	xcomp
7	than	than	ADP	_	9 Fly	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Fly	det
9	Fly	Fly	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 harder	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	past	he	himself = he				hard property	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme himself=Co-Theme

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