Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

what did the dog reckon they should chuck in the bin?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: dog, they · What happens: reckon, chuck · To what, where: bin

This is test 12 · ★ 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 reckon	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 reckon	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dog	det
4	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reckon	nsubj
5	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 chuck	nsubj
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 chuck	aux
8	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 reckon	ccomp
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 bin	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bin	det
11	bin	bin	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 chuck	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the dog						tree rules
2	chuck	should	they			the bin			vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent in bin=Destination

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 · ✓ the right answer

the packet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 packet	det
2	packet	packet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the old bag

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 bag	det
2	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bag	amod
3	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

the sealed paper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 paper	det
2	sealed	seal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 paper	amod
3	paper	paper	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seal	participle							vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

Option 4

the whole thing and everything inside

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thing	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 everything	cc
5	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	3 thing	conj
6	inside	inside	ADV	_	5 everything	advmod

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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