Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer, His Boy, and the Rooks, part 2…

oi, did u read the one where the daughters are like "rain pls" and "no rain pls", proper confusing innit

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oi, daughters, rain · What happens: read, be, pl · To what, where: one

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 150 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer, His Boy, and the Rooks, part 20: the boy's sling sends the rooks flying from the wheat field» 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	oi	oi	X	Foreign=Yes	5 read	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 read	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 read	aux
4	u	you	PRON	Abbr=Yes Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 read	nsubj
5	read	read	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	obj
8	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	15 pls	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 daughters	det
10	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 pls	nsubj
11	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 pls	cop
12	like	like	ADP	_	15 pls	case
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pls	punct
14	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 pls	compound
15	pls	pl	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 one	nmod
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	15 pls	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 pls	cc
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pls	punct
19	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	20 rain	det
20	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pls	nsubj
21	pls	pl	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 read	conj
22	"	"	PUNCT	_	21 pls	punct
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 innit	punct
24	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 innit	amod
25	confusing	confusing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 innit	amod
26	innit	innit	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 read	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	read	past · do-support	oi	the one		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic
2	is in a quote	present	the daughters		like rain pls	tree rules
3	pl in a quote	present	no rain			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

gardener wanted rain, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 wanted	punct
5	lol	lol	INTJ	_	2 wanted	discourse

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the gardener wanted rain and the potter wanted dry weather, bare random

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 gardener	det
2	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 potter	det
7	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	nsubj
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wanted	conj
9	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 weather	amod
10	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 random	punct
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 random	amod
13	random	random	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 weather	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the gardener	rain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rain=Theme
2	want	past	the potter	dry weather and bare random					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot weather=Theme

Option 3

yeah the gardener wanted rain and the potter wanted sun, bare random lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 gardener	det
3	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wanted	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 potter	det
8	potter	potter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	nsubj
9	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wanted	conj
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wanted	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 random	punct
12	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 random	amod
13	random	random	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wanted	xcomp
14	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	the gardener	rain					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rain=Theme
2	want	past	the potter	sun				random property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot sun=Theme

Option 4

yeah, the gardener wanted rain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gardener	det
4	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

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

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