Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Dude, the Oak was so buff but still got wrecked, why tho?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oak · What happens: be, wreck · To what, where: buff, Dude

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 wrecked	nsubj:pass
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 buff	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Oak	det
4	Oak	Oak	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 buff	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 buff	cop
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 buff	advmod
7	buff	buff	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Dude	conj
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 wrecked	cc
9	still	still	ADV	_	11 wrecked	advmod
10	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 wrecked	aux:pass
11	wrecked	wreck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 why	punct
13	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	11 wrecked	conj
14	tho	tho	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 why	nsubj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	11 wrecked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	the Oak	buff					tree rules
2	wreck	past · passive		Dude and buff			still		vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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

it refused to bend down

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 refused	nsubj
2	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	4 bend	mark
4	bend	bend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 refused	xcomp
5	down	down	ADP	_	4 bend	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	refuse	past	it						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	not bend down	to-infinitive							vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it fought the storm too hard

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 fought	nsubj
2	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 storm	det
4	storm	storm	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fought	obj
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 hard	advmod
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 fought	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fight	past	it	the storm				hard property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent storm=Co-Agent

Option 3

it was too stiff and proud

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	4 stiff	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stiff	cop
3	too	too	ADV	_	4 stiff	advmod
4	stiff	stiff	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 proud	cc
6	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stiff	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	it					stiff property	tree rules
2	be								tree rules

Option 4

the wind was strong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 strong	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 strong	cop
4	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wind					strong property	tree rules

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