Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Gross, why did the Farmer leave his plough?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Farmer · What happens: leave · To what, where: plough

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 157 «Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogue, a proud horse and other short tales» 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	Gross	gross	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 leave	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 leave	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 leave	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Farmer	det
6	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 leave	nsubj
7	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Gross	parataxis
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 plough	nmod:poss
9	plough	plough	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 leave	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Gross	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past · do-support	the Farmer	Farmer's plough					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plough=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

To help his wife

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 help	mark
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wife	nmod:poss
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 help	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	to-infinitive			his wife				vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Beneficiary

Option 2

To eat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 eat	mark
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

To sit by the Woman

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 sit	mark
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	5 Woman	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Woman	det
5	Woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	to-infinitive						by the Woman	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent by woman=Location

Option 4

To rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 rest	mark
2	rest	rest	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rest	to-infinitive							vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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