Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Bruh, what was the Plane-tree doing for them?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Plane tree · What happens: be, do · To what, where: Plane tree

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 147 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance, a doctor's signs, a rude Plane-tree and more» 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 tree	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 tree	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 tree	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	Plane	Plane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 Plane	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 tree	acl
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 doing	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 tree	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Plane tree					tree rules
2	do	gerund	the Plane tree not said here					for them = they	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Giving them food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		food	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient food=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Giving them cool shade

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shade	amod
4	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		cool shade	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shade=Theme

Option 3

Giving them fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Giving	iobj
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Giving	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	gerund		fruit	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient fruit=Theme

Option 4

Keeping them safe at night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Keeping	keep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Keeping	obj
3	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Keeping	xcomp
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 night	case
5	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 safe	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	gerund		them = they				safe property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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