Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Serpent and the Eagle: a snake, a rogu…

Dead gassed, what fancy kit was the Horse so proud of?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dead · What happens: gas, be · To what, where: Horse

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Dead	Dead	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 gassed	nsubj
2	gassed	gas	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Horse	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	9 Horse	nsubj
5	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 kit	amod
6	kit	kit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Horse	nsubj
7	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 Horse	cop
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Horse	det
9	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gassed	obj
10	so	so	ADV	_	11 proud	advmod
11	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Horse	amod
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 proud	obl
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 gassed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gas	past	Dead						vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past		the Horse					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

The grand saddle that he wore on feast days

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 saddle	det
2	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 saddle	amod
3	saddle	saddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wore	nsubj
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 wore	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 wore	nsubj
6	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 days	case
8	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 days	compound
9	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 wore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wear	past	the grand saddle				day		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 2

The fancy harness that his old master had bought him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 harness	det
2	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harness	amod
3	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bought	obj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 master	nmod:poss
6	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 master	amod
7	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	aux
9	bought	buy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 harness	acl:relcl
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 bought	iobj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	buy	past · perfect · passive		his old master	him = he				tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His posh harness

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 harness	nmod:poss
2	posh	posh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 harness	amod
3	harness	harness	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

His shiny reins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 reins	nmod:poss
2	shiny	shiny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 reins	amod
3	reins	rein	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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