Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

what was the rook's big warning, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: big warning · What happens: be, innit · To what, where: big warning

This is test 7 · ★ 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	7 warning	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 warning	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 rook	det
4	rook	rook	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 warning	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 rook	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 warning	amod
7	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 warning	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 warning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the rook's big warning					tree rules
2	innit	infinitive	the rook's big warning not said here						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 · ← Mova's choice

farmers are cruel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	farmers	farmer	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 cruel	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 cruel	cop
3	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	farmers					cruel property	tree rules

Option 2

men lie

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lie	nsubj
2	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	present	men						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

men are rascals

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 rascals	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 rascals	cop
3	rascals	rascal	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	men	rascals					tree rules

Option 4

dogs are dangerous

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dogs	dog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 dangerous	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 dangerous	cop
3	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	dogs					dangerous property	tree rules

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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