Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Rooks, part 2: the Farm…

why's men so dodgy, the rook reckoned?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: men · What happens: be, reckon · To what, where: rook

This is test 8 · ★ 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	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 dodgy	advmod
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dodgy	cop
3	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 dodgy	nsubj
4	so	so	ADV	_	5 dodgy	advmod
5	dodgy	dodgy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 rook	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 rook	det
8	rook	rook	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dodgy	conj
9	reckoned	reckon	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 rook	acl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 dodgy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	men					dodgy property	tree rules
2	reckon	participle		the rook not said here					vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: 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

they're always shooting at birds with slings

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	4 shooting	nsubj
2	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 shooting	aux
3	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 shooting	advmod
4	shooting	shoot	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shooting	obl
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 slings	case
8	slings	sling	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 shooting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoot	present · progressive	they					at birds; with slings; always property	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at bird=Destination

Option 2

they hunt birds for fun

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 hunt	nsubj
2	hunt	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 hunt	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 fun	case
5	fun	fun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hunt	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hunt	present	they	birds				for fun	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent bird=Location for fun=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

they say one thing, mean another

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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 thing	nummod
4	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 say	conj
7	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they	one thing					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	mean	infinitive	they not said here	another					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Topic

Option 4

they say nice things but mean nasty ones

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 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 things	amod
4	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 say	obj
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 mean	cc
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 say	conj
7	nasty	nasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 ones	amod
8	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mean	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	they	nice things					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent thing=Topic
2	mean	present	they not said here	nasty ones					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Topic

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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