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

oi, what did the farmer's lad have to do when the farmer said humph, like proper quick?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oi, lad, farmer · What happens: do, have, say, humph · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 151 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farmer tricks the starlings with a secret word, then a Rook warns the cranes» 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	4 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 did	nsubj
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lad	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 farmer	case
8	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 did	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 do	mark
11	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 have	xcomp
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	15 said	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 farmer	det
14	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 said	nsubj
15	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 do	advcl
16	humph	humph	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 said	ccomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 quick	punct
18	like	like	ADP	_	20 quick	case
19	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 quick	amod
20	quick	quick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 humph	advmod
21	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	do	past	oi	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	the farmer's lad	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the farmer's lad not said here	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	say speech: assert	past	the farmer	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	humph	infinitive		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 · ✓ the right answer

hand him the sling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	hand	hand	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 hand	obj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 sling	det
4	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 hand	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hand	imperative	you not said here	the sling	him = he				vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination sling=Theme

Option 2

throw a stone back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	throw	throw	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 throw	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	1 throw	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw back	imperative	you not said here	a stone					vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

grab the stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	grab	grab	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 stick	det
3	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 grab	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grab	imperative	you not said here	the stick					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Option 4

run off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	run	run	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	off	off	ADP	_	1 run	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	imperative	you not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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