Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Yo, that Rat was acting so extra, what happened to him?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Rat · What happens: act, happen · To what, where: extra, Rat

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	6 acting	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Rat	det
4	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 acting	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 acting	aux
6	acting	act	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 extra	advmod
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 acting	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 acting	conj
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 acting	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	act	past · progressive	that Rat	extra					vn act-114-1-1 «NP V PP.predicate»: agent=Agent extra=Eventuality
2	happen	past			Rat				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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

the Cat saw

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Cat						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

a Cat caught his eye

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a Cat	Cat's eye					vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

the Cat spotted him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spotted	nsubj
3	spotted	spot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 spotted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spot	past	the Cat		him = he				vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Destination

Option 4

the Cat saw his tail

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Cat	det
2	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 tail	nmod:poss
5	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Cat	Cat's tail					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tail=Stimulus

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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