Test 13 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

So was the Country Mouse happy to go back home?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Country · What happens: be, go back

This is test 13 · ★ of lesson 363 «Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits her city cousin and flees a cat and dog» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 happy	advmod
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 happy	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 happy	det
4	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 happy	nsubj
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Country	flat
6	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 go	mark
8	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 happy	xcomp
9	back	back	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
10	home	home	ADV	_	8 go	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 happy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	Country					happy property	tree rules
2	go back	to-infinitive	Country not said here					home property	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient

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

Nah at first, but then yeah, she said her simple life was peace, in the end

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 first	case
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	10 said	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 said	cc
6	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 said	advmod
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	10 said	discourse
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 said	nsubj
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 life	nmod:poss
12	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 life	amod
13	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peace	nsubj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 peace	cop
15	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 end	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 end	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 end	det
19	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 peace	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she				then		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	her simple life	peace and the end					tree rules

Option 2

Yeah, peace was what she liked

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 what	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 liked	nsubj
7	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	peace						tree rules
2	like	past	she						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

Option 3

Nah, the city was too loud for her

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 loud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 city	det
4	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 loud	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 loud	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 loud	advmod
7	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 her	case
9	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 loud	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the city					for her = she; loud property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said her plain life was peace

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 life	nmod:poss
6	plain	plain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 life	amod
7	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 peace	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 peace	cop
9	peace	peace	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 said	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a	past	her plain life	peace					tree rules

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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