Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Bull and the Calf, part 19: a string o…

fr, why'd the bird only sing at night, bro?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: bird · What happens: sing

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 bird	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	6 bird	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bird	det
6	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 fr	appos
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 sing	advmod
8	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bird	acl:relcl
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 night	case
10	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sing	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bro	punct
12	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 night	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 fr	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the bird not said here				night		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

cuz she kept the whole village awake at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	nsubj
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	nsubj
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 village	det
5	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 village	amod
6	village	village	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obj
7	awake	awake	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 kept	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 dawn	case
9	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 kept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	cuz	the whole village			dawn	awake property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent village=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

cuz a fowler caught her singing by day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 fowler	compound
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 fowler	det
3	fowler	fowler	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 caught	nsubj
4	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 caught	obj
6	singing	sing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 caught	advcl
7	by	by	ADP	_	8 day	case
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 singing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	cuz	infinitive				tree rules
2	catch	past	a cuz fowler	her = she		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	sing speech: express	gerund	a cuz fowler not said here		day	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

cuz he wanted her feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 feathers	nmod:poss
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	cuz	her feathers					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feather=Theme

Option 4

cuz she was too loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cuz	cuz	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 loud	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 loud	advmod
5	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cuz	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she	cuz not said here				loud property	tree rules

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