Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Sooo the Crow was thirsty, what was his big brain move?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Crow, big brain · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Sooo	so	ADV	_	5 thirsty	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Crow	det
3	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 thirsty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 thirsty	cop
5	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 move	punct
7	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 move	obj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 move	cop
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brain	nmod:poss
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 brain	amod
11	brain	brain	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 move	nsubj
12	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 thirsty	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 thirsty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Crow					thirsty property	tree rules
2	is	past	Crow's big brain					move 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

dropping sticks in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		sticks					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

dropping many pebbles into the pitcher

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pebbles	amod
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 pitcher	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 pitcher	det
6	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		many pebbles		the pitcher			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme into pitcher=Destination

Option 3

dropping small pebbles into the water jar

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pebbles	amod
3	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj
4	into	into	ADP	_	7 jar	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 jar	det
6	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jar	compound
7	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		small pebbles		the water jar			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme into jar=Destination

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

dropping pebbles in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	dropping	drop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	pebbles	pebble	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 dropping	obj
3	in	in	ADP	_	1 dropping	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	gerund		pebbles					vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Theme

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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