Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Lol, what's the Sick Man's sad line at the end?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sad line · What happens: be

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Man	det
6	Sick	Sick	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Man	compound
7	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 line	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 Man	case
9	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 line	amod
10	line	line	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 what	nsubj
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 end	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 end	det
13	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 line	nmod
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the Sick Man's sad line at the end						tree rules

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

I'm dying of bad signs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dying	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 signs	case
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dying	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	I					of bad signs	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of sign=Causer

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

"I'm dying of good signs"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 dying	nsubj
3	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dying	aux
4	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 signs	case
6	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 signs	amod
7	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dying	obl
8	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 dying	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die in a quote	present · progressive	I					of good signs	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of sign=Causer

Option 3

I'm dying of good signs, my friends, so bury me well

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dying	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 signs	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 friends	punct
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 friends	nmod:poss
9	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 signs	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bury	punct
11	so	so	ADV	_	12 bury	advmod
12	bury	bury	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 dying	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 bury	obj
14	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	12 bury	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	I					of good signs and my friends	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of sign=Causer
2	bury	infinitive	I not said here	me				well property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme

Option 4

I'm dying of good signs, which is strange, but there you go

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 dying	nsubj
2	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	aux
3	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 signs	case
5	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	amod
6	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dying	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 strange	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 strange	nsubj
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 strange	cop
10	strange	strange	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 signs	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 go	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 go	cc
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 go	advmod
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 go	nsubj
15	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dying	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	die	present · progressive	I		of good signs	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of sign=Causer
2	is	present	good signs		strange property	tree rules
3	go	present	you	there		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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