Test 14 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

lol, what did the bat say the bird should've done?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do, say · To what, where: bat, bird · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 149 «Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string of short fables where clever and foolish creatures and people get their just deserts» 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	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 say	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bat	det
6	bat	bat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 bird	det
9	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 done	nsubj:pass
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 done	aux
11	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 done	aux
12	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 say	ccomp
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past	the bat	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bat=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do	should · perfect · passive	the bird	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality

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

stayed quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past						quiet property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

sung louder by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	louder	loud	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	1 sung	xcomp
3	by	by	ADP	_	4 day	case
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sung	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle					day	loud property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

sung at night more often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 night	case
3	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sung	obl
4	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	1 sung	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle					night	often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

sung by day less often

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sung	sing	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	by	by	ADP	_	3 day	case
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sung	obl
4	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 often	advmod
5	often	often	ADV	_	1 sung	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	participle					day	often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=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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