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

bruv, did the starlings even notice humph, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bruv · What happens: do, notice · To what, where: starlings, humph

This is test 2 · ★ 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	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruv	punct
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 starlings	det
5	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	obj
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 notice	advmod
7	notice	notice	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 did	advcl
8	humph	humph	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 notice	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 nah	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	bruv	the starlings					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent starling=Eventuality
2	notice	present	bruv not said here	humph					vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer humph=Stimulus

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

nah, they ignored it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ignored	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	nsubj
4	ignored	ignore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ignored	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ignore	past	they	it					vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

yeah they heard it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 heard	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	nsubj
3	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 heard	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hear	past	they	it					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

Option 3

nah, they just sat there and laughed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sat	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 sat	advmod
5	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 sat	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 laughed	cc
8	laughed	laugh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sat	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	they			there			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	laugh	past	they not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

they flapped about

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flapped	nsubj
2	flapped	flap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	about	about	ADV	_	2 flapped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flap	past	they					about property	vn body_internal_motion-49.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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