Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Bro, the Boys were throwing rocks all day, how was that not lit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Boys · What happens: throw, not lit · To what, where: rocks

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throwing	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bro	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Boys	det
4	Boys	Boy	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 throwing	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 throwing	aux
6	throwing	throw	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	rocks	rock	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 throwing	obj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 day	det
9	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 throwing	obl:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lit	punct
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lit	advmod
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 lit	aux:pass
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 lit	mark
14	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 lit	advmod
15	lit	lit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 throwing	advcl
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 lit	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	throw	past · progressive	the Boys	rocks			day	Bro vocative	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
2	not lit	past · passive	the Boys not said here						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

the Frogs were scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

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

Option 2

the Frogs hid away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 hid	nsubj
3	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 hid	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hide away	past	the Frogs					away property	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the Frogs were terrified and hid under the reeds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrified	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 hid	cc
6	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 reeds	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 reeds	det
9	reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 hid	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frogs					terrified property	tree rules
2	hide	past	the Frogs not said here			the reeds			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under reed=Location

Option 4

the Frogs were scared and dove deep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scared	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	cop
4	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 dove	cc
6	dove	dove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 scared	conj
7	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 dove	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frogs					scared property	tree rules
2	dove	present	the Frogs not said here					deep property	tree rules

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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