Test 12 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule…

Was the goat stuck in the yard eating grass?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · What happens: be, stick, eat · To what, where: goat, eating grass

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1906 «Olive Fairy Book, The Biter Bit, part 1: Simon buys a mule that three rogues swear is a donkey» 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 goat	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 goat	det
3	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 goat	acl
5	in	in	ADP	_	9 grass	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 grass	det
7	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 eating	compound
8	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	9 grass	amod
9	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stuck	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 goat	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	is a	past	the goat		tree rules
2	stick	participle	the goat not said here	the eating grass	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in grass=Destination
3	eat	gerund			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Yeah, munching grass like anything

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 munching	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 munching	punct
3	munching	munch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 munching	obj
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 anything	case
6	anything	anything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	3 munching	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	munch	gerund		grass				like anything	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, chewing the cud like a boss

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 chewing	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 chewing	punct
3	chewing	chew	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cud	det
5	cud	cud	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chewing	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	8 boss	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 boss	det
8	boss	boss	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 chewing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	gerund		the cud				like a boss	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient

Option 3

Nah, it was tied up tight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 tied	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tied	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tied	aux:pass
5	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 tied	compound:prt
7	tight	tight	ADV	_	5 tied	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tie up	past · passive		it				tight property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it was eating grass, but also the rope the peasant had tied it with, which annoyed Simon a lot

The tree, 20 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 eating	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 eating	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 eating	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 eating	aux
5	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tied	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 tied	cc
9	also	also	ADV	_	15 tied	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 rope	det
11	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	nsubj:pass
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 peasant	det
13	peasant	peasant	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tied	nsubj:pass
14	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 tied	aux
15	tied	tie	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 eating	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 tied	obj
17	with	with	ADP	_	21 Simon	case
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Simon	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 Simon	nsubj
20	annoyed	annoyed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Simon	amod
21	Simon	Simon	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 tied	obl
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 lot	det
23	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eating	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · progressive	it	grass				a lot obl:unmarked	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient
2	tie	past · perfect · passive		the rope				with annoyed Simon	vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient it=Result

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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