Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

what did the cranes wanna know, mate?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cranes · What happens: know

This is test 5 · ★ 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	6 know	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 know	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cranes	det
4	cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 know	nsubj
5	wanna	wanna	X	Foreign=Yes	6 know	dep
6	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mate	punct
8	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 know	vocative
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 know	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	past · do-support	the cranes					mate vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer what=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

what the matter was

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 matter	det
3	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the matter						tree rules

Option 2

if the starlings had been hurt at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 hurt	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 starlings	det
3	starlings	starling	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hurt	nsubj:pass
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hurt	aux
5	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 hurt	aux:pass
6	hurt	hurt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 all	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 hurt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hurt	past · perfect · passive		the starlings		all			vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 3

how they were feeling

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 feeling	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 feeling	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 feeling	aux
4	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	past · progressive	they						vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

Option 4

where they went

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	they						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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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