Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

The Dog got old age, so old folks are grumpy, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Dog, old folks · What happens: get, be · To what, where: old age

This is test 11 · ★ 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 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 age	amod
5	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grumpy	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	11 grumpy	advmod
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 folks	amod
9	folks	folk	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 grumpy	nsubj
10	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 grumpy	cop
11	grumpy	grumpy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 grumpy	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	3 got	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the Dog	old age					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer age=Stimulus
2	is	present	old folks					grumpy property	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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they snap at people who annoy them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 snap	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 snap	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 snap	nsubj
4	snap	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 people	case
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 snap	obl
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 annoy	nsubj
8	annoy	annoy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 people	acl:relcl
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 annoy	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	present	they					at people	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at people=Location
2	annoy	present	people	people					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer

Option 2

Yeah, they grumble at the young

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 grumble	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grumble	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 grumble	nsubj
4	grumble	grumble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 young	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 young	det
7	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grumble	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grumble speech: other	present	they			the young			vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nah, they're just sad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 sad	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 sad	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 sad	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 sad	advmod
6	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Nah, they're always cheerful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cheerful	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cheerful	nsubj
4	're	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 cheerful	cop
5	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	6 cheerful	advmod
6	cheerful	cheerful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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