Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Camel: a jealous dance,…

Yo, what did the tree say to the rude Travellers?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: tree · What happens: say · To what, where: rude Travellers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	7 say	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 say	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 say	nsubj
7	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 Travellers	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Travellers	det
10	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 Travellers	amod
11	Travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 say	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the tree		the rude Travellers				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Topic to traveller=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

You ungrateful creature, now take your rude mouths away from my shade forever

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 creature	nsubj
2	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creature	amod
3	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 take	punct
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 take	advmod
6	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 creature	acl:relcl
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mouths	nmod:poss
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 mouths	amod
9	mouths	mouth	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 take	obj
10	away	away	ADV	_	6 take	advmod
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 shade	case
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 shade	nmod:poss
13	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 away	obl
14	forever	forever	ADV	_	6 take	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	infinitive	ungrateful creature not said here	your rude mouths			now	away, forever property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme
2	shade		my						nom shade «state transitive»: poss=agent

Option 2

You rude little beast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	root	root
2	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beast	amod
3	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 beast	amod
4	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 You	appos

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

"You ungrateful creature"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct
2	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 creature	nsubj
3	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 creature	amod
4	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 creature	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

You ungrateful creatures, after all the shade I gave you

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 creatures	nsubj
2	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 creatures	amod
3	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 shade	punct
5	after	after	ADP	_	8 shade	case
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 shade	det:predet
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 shade	det
8	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 creatures	nmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 gave	nsubj
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 shade	acl:relcl
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 gave	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	I	all shade not said here	you				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=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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