Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

The Nightingale begged the Hawk, was she lowkey scared?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Nightingale · What happens: beg, be · To what, where: Hawk

This is test 7 · ★ 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 Nightingale	det
2	Nightingale	Nightingale	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	nsubj
3	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hawk	det
5	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 begged	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 scared	punct
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 scared	cop
8	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 scared	nsubj
9	lowkey	lowkey	ADV	_	10 scared	advmod
10	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 begged	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 begged	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	the Nightingale		the Hawk				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent hawk=Recipient
2	is	past	Nightingale					lowkey, scared 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

Yeah, she was dead scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 scared	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 scared	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 scared	cop
5	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 scared	amod
6	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					scared property	tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, she pleaded for her life and wept by the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pleaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pleaded	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleaded	nsubj
4	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleaded	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 wept	cc
9	wept	weep	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 pleaded	conj
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 nest	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 nest	det
12	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wept	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	she					for her life	tree rules
2	weep	participle	she not said here					by the nest	vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, she pleaded for her life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 pleaded	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 pleaded	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 pleaded	nsubj
4	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 life	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pleaded	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	plead speech: request	past	she					for her life	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, she sang sweetly and the Hawk loved her song deeply

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 sang	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sang	nsubj
4	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sweetly	sweetly	ADV	_	4 sang	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 loved	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Hawk	det
8	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 loved	nsubj
9	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 sang	conj
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 song	nmod:poss
11	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 loved	obj
12	deeply	deeply	ADV	_	9 loved	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	she		sweetly property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	love	past	the Hawk	Hawk's song	deeply property	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer song=Stimulus
3	sing		Hawk			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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