Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

what did the dog keep begging the ass to find, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dog · What happens: keep, beg, find · To what, where: ass

This is test 11 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 keep	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 keep	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 keep	nsubj
5	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	begging	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 keep	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ass	det
8	ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 begging	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 find	mark
10	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 ass	acl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 mate	punct
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 ass	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 keep	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	keep	past · do-support	the dog		tree rules
2	beg speech: request	gerund	the dog not said here	the ass and mate	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient
3	find	to-infinitive	the dog not said here	the ass and mate not said here	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent

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

corn and oats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 oats	cc
3	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 corn	conj

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

meat and bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 bones	cc
3	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 meat	conj

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

Option 3

bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

meat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

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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