Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Lol, so the frogs got a log for a king, and then what, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: frogs · What happens: get · To what, where: log

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Lol	punct
3	so	so	ADV	_	6 got	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 frogs	det
5	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 log	det
8	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 got	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 king	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 king	det
11	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 log	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 what	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
14	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 what	advmod
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 got	parataxis
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 fr	punct
17	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 what	nsubj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the frogs	a log				for a king	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent log=Theme for king=Beneficiary

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

the Owl bit one

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 bit	nsubj
3	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the Owl	one					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

a Crane ate them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Crane	det
2	Crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 ate	nsubj
3	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	a Crane	them = they					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 3

a Crane

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Crane	det
2	Crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

frogs ate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	frogs						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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