Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

Yo, why'd Demades stop his fable halfway, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Demades · What happens: stop, innit · To what, where: fable

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 153 «Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey is carried ashore on a dolphin's back, then lies about his family and drowns.» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 stop	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 stop	advmod
4	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 Demades	aux
5	Demades	Demade	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 stop	nsubj
6	stop	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fable	nmod:poss
8	fable	fable	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 stop	obj
9	halfway	halfway	ADV	_	6 stop	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 innit	punct
11	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 stop	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 stop	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	present	Demades	his fable				halfway property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector fable=Eventuality
2	innit	infinitive	Demades 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

Cos the crowd was shouting over him and nobody could hear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	5 shouting	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 shouting	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 shouting	aux
5	shouting	shout	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	over	over	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 shouting	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hear	cc
9	nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	11 hear	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 hear	aux
11	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 shouting	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shout speech: express	past · progressive	the crowd					over him = he	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	hear	could	nobody						vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

Cos the lot had left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 lot	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 left	aux
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · perfect						cos the lot	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Cos he was knackered

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 knackered	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 knackered	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 knackered	aux:pass
4	knackered	knacker	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	knacker	past · passive		he					tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Cos the crowd wasn't even listening

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 crowd	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crowd	det
3	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 listening	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 listening	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 listening	advmod
6	even	even	ADV	_	7 listening	advmod
7	listening	listen	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not listen	past · progressive						cos the crowd	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: 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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