Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Monkey and the Dolphin: a pet monkey i…

Why did the Rose say she was sad, like what's the tea?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Rose, she · What happens: say, be · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 say	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Rose	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Rose	det
4	Rose	Rise	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 sad	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 sad	cop
8	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 say	ccomp
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tea	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	14 tea	case
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 tea	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 tea	cop
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tea	det
14	tea	tea	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 sad	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the Rose		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	she	sad property	tree rules
3	is	present		like the tea	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

She grows too tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 grows	nsubj
2	grows	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 tall	advmod
4	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grows	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	present	She					tall property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

She only blooms for a while, then dies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 blooms	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 blooms	advmod
3	blooms	bloom	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 while	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 while	det
6	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 blooms	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 dies	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 dies	advmod
9	dies	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 blooms	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bloom	present	She				while		vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	die	present	She not said here				then		vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

She wilts far too early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wilts	nsubj
2	wilts	wilt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wilts	advmod
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 early	advmod
5	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 wilts	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wilt	present	She					early, far property	vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 4

She fades in the summer sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fades	nsubj
2	fades	fade	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	6 sun	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sun	det
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sun	compound
6	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fades	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fade	present	She			the summer sun			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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