Test 7 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse:…

Did the Country Mouse say yes to going to the city?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Country Mouse · What happens: say, go · To what, where: city · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 say	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mouse	det
3	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Mouse	compound
4	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 say	nsubj
5	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	5 say	obj
7	to	to	SCONJ	_	8 going	mark
8	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 say	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 city	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 city	det
11	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 going	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the Country Mouse						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic
2	go	gerund	the Country Mouse not said here			the city			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to city=Initial_Location

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she said yes straight away

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	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
6	straight	straight	ADV	_	7 away	advmod
7	away	away	ADV	_	4 said	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she					away property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 2

Yeah, she said yes at once

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	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 said	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 once	case
7	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 said	obl

#	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 NP.topic»: agent=Agent yes=Topic

Option 3

No way, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 way	det
2	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mate	compound
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 way	punct
4	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

Nah, she said no to that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 said	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	no	that				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent no=Topic to that=Recipient

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