Test 12 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

be real, was the cook the baddie or the crow?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: baddie · What happens: be · To what, where: real cook

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1855 «Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow is caught and plucked» 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	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 real	cop
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cook	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cook	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 cook	det
6	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 baddie	det
8	baddie	baddie	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	nsubj
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 crow	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crow	det
11	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cook	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 cook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	infinitive						real property	tree rules
2	is a	past	the baddie	the real cook or the crow					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

the cook, for hanging the basket

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 hanging	mark
5	hanging	hang	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cook	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 hanging	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hang	gerund	the cook not said here	the basket					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=Patient

Option 2

the crow, for eating the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 crow	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 eating	mark
5	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 crow	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fish	det
7	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund	the crow not said here	the fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

Option 3

the cook, for plucking

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 cook	det
2	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 cook	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 plucking	mark
5	plucking	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 cook	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	gerund	the cook not said here						vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the crow, for stealing the food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stealing	punct
4	for	for	SCONJ	_	5 stealing	mark
5	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 crow	acl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 food	det
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund	the crow not said here	the food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

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