Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

So the Hawk said he won't drop his prize, peak logic?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hawk · What happens: say, not drop · To what, where: prize · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 said	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Hawk	det
3	Hawk	Hawk	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drop	nsubj
6	wo	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 drop	aux
7	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 drop	advmod
8	drop	drop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prize	nmod:poss
10	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drop	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 logic	punct
12	peak	peak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 logic	compound
13	logic	logic	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 prize	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Hawk						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not drop	future	Hawk	Hawk's prize and peak logic					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=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

Nah, he gave it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	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 gave	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 gave	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give up	past	he	it					vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 2

Nah, he dropped it fast

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	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 dropped	obj
6	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 dropped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it				fast property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he wasn't giving it up for a maybe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 giving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 giving	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 giving	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 giving	advmod
6	giving	give	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 giving	obj
8	up	up	ADP	_	6 giving	compound:prt
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 a	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 giving	obl
11	maybe	maybe	ADV	_	6 giving	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not give up	past · progressive	he	it				for a; maybe property	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source

Option 4

Yeah, he's totally right

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 right	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 right	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 right	cop
5	totally	totally	ADV	_	6 right	advmod
6	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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