Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

Did the hungry Crow get the snake, or nah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: get · To what, where: hungry Crow

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Crow	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Crow	det
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Crow	amod
4	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obl
5	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 get	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 nah	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 get	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		the hungry Crow					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer snake=Stimulus

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

Nah, the snake woke up and bit him and he died there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 woke	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 woke	nsubj
5	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 woke	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bit	cc
8	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bit	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 died	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 woke	conj
13	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	wake up	past	the snake			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	bite	past	the snake not said here	snake		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	die	past	snake		there	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Nah, it bit him and he died

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 died	cc
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 died	nsubj
8	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bit	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	it	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
2	die	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

Yeah, he ate it but then the snake bit him proper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 bit	cc
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 bit	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 snake	det
9	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 bit	nsubj
10	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 bit	obj
12	proper	properly	ADV	_	10 bit	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	bite	past	the snake	him = he			then	properly property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, he ate it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	he	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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