Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Wait, the Frogs got a Crane and that was worse, why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, Frogs, that · What happens: wait, get, be · To what, where: Crane

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 365 «Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Crane, and Jupiter's reply» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Frogs	det
4	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Crane	det
7	Crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 worse	cc
9	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 worse	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 worse	cop
11	worse	bad	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 got	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	1 Wait	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	get	past	the Frogs	a Crane		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer crane=Stimulus
3	is	past	that		bad property	tree rules

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

it gobbled them up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gobbled	nsubj
2	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gobbled	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 gobbled	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	gobble up	past	it	them = they					vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 2

it swallowed every single frog whole

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 swallowed	nsubj
2	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	5 frog	det
4	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 frog	amod
5	frog	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 swallowed	obj
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 swallowed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swallow	past	it	every single frog				whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent frog=Patient

Option 3

they were all eaten

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 eaten	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 eaten	aux:pass
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 eaten	advmod
4	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · passive		they				all property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 4

it snapped at frogs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 snapped	nsubj
2	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 frogs	case
4	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 snapped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	snap	past	it					at frogs	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at frog=Location

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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