Test 4 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

Why did the Town Mouse pretend to like the simple food?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Town Mouse · What happens: do, pretend, like · To what, where: simple food

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	2 did	advmod
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
4	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mouse	compound
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 pretend	nsubj
6	pretend	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	ccomp
7	to	to	PART	_	8 like	mark
8	like	like	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 pretend	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 food	det
10	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 food	amod
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 like	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	do	past			tree rules
2	pretend	present	the Town Mouse		tree rules
3	like	to-infinitive	the Town Mouse not said here	the simple food	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot food=Theme

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

She was just trying to be polite and kind to her mate, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 trying	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 trying	aux
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 trying	advmod
4	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	7 polite	mark
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 polite	cop
7	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 trying	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kind	cc
9	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 polite	conj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 mate	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 mate	nmod:poss
12	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kind	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 bro	punct
14	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trying	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	try	past · progressive	She		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	She not said here	polite property	tree rules
3	be		She not said here	to her mate	tree rules

Option 2

Cause she didn't want to be rude to her mate, bro, at all

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 want	mark
2	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 want	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 want	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 want	advmod
5	want	want	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 rude	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 rude	cop
8	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 want	xcomp
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 mate	case
10	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mate	nmod:poss
11	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rude	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bro	punct
13	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 mate	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 want	punct
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 all	case
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 want	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not want	past · do-support	she			all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	she not said here					to her mate and bro; rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she was just being polite, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 polite	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 polite	cop
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 polite	advmod
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 polite	cop
5	polite	polite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 polite	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	she					bro vocative; polite property	tree rules

Option 4

She liked it, honestly, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	nsubj
2	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 liked	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 honestly	punct
5	honestly	honestly	ADV	_	2 liked	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mate	punct
7	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 liked	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	like	past	She	it				mate vocative; honestly property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot it=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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