Test 3 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, The Pigeon and the Crow: a greedy Crow…

mate the crow pretended to eat with the pigeon but was secretly doing what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mate · What happens: pretend, eat, do

This is test 3 · ★ 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	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretended	nsubj
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 crow	det
3	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 pretended	nsubj
4	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 eat	mark
6	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pretended	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 pigeon	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pigeon	det
9	pigeon	pigeon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eat	obl
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 doing	cc
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 doing	aux
12	secretly	secretly	ADV	_	13 doing	advmod
13	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 pretended	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 doing	obj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pretended	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	pretend	past	mate		tree rules
2	eat	to-infinitive	mate not said here	with the pigeon	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	do	past · progressive	mate not said here	secretly property	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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

eating fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

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

Option 2

eating rotten bread

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	rotten	rotten	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bread	amod
3	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

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

Option 3

stealing food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 stealing	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	gerund		food					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location food=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gobbling fat worms

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gobbling	gobble	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 worms	amod
3	worms	worm	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 gobbling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble	gerund		fat worms					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent worm=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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