Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

The Swan only sings once, sad or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Swan · What happens: sing

This is test 13 · ★ 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 Swan	det
2	Swan	swan	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	nsubj
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 sings	advmod
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 sings	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 sad	punct
7	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sings	advcl
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 what	cc
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 sad	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 sings	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	the Swan					once property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, it sings when hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sings	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	6 hungry	mark
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sings	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	it					hungry property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Nah, it sings often and loudly every morning of its life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	often	often	ADV	_	4 sings	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 loudly	cc
7	loudly	loudly	ADV	_	5 often	conj
8	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	9 morning	det
9	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sings	obl:unmarked
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 life	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 life	nmod:poss
12	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 morning	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	it				morning	often property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it sings only when it knows death is near, sadly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sings	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sings	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sings	nsubj
4	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 knows	advmod
6	when	when	SCONJ	_	8 knows	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 knows	nsubj
8	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sings	ccomp
9	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 near	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 near	cop
11	near	near	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 knows	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sings	punct
13	sadly	sadly	ADV	_	4 sings	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	present	it	sadly property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	know	present	it		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	present	death	near property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, when it knows it is dying

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 knows	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knows	punct
3	when	when	SCONJ	_	5 knows	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 knows	nsubj
5	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 dying	nsubj
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 dying	aux
8	dying	die	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 knows	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	know	present	it						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	die	present · progressive	it						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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