Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

The Amaranth never fades, that's wild, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Amaranth, that · What happens: not fade, be, innit

This is test 10 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Amaranth	det
2	Amaranth	Amaranth	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 fades	nsubj
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 fades	advmod
4	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wild	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 wild	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	cop
8	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fades	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 wild	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 fades	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	not fade	present	the Amaranth		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	is	present	that	wild property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive			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

Yeah, its roots are deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 deep	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 deep	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 roots	nmod:poss
4	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 deep	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 deep	cop
6	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2

Yeah, it never grows

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 grows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 grows	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 grows	advmod
5	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not grow	present	it						vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, its flowers are everlasting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 everlasting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 everlasting	punct
3	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 flowers	nmod:poss
4	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 everlasting	nsubj
5	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 everlasting	cop
6	everlasting	everlasting	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, it wilts in days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wilts	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wilts	nsubj
4	wilts	wilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wilts	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wilt	present	it				day		vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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