Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Frogs Who Wanted a King: a log, a Cran…

Ok real, the Ants got mad at the Grasshopper, what for?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Ants · What happens: get

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Ok	ok	INTJ	_	2 real	discourse
2	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 got	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Ants	det
5	Ants	Ant	PROPN	Number=Plur	6 got	nsubj
6	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 real	conj
7	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 got	xcomp
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 Grasshopper	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Grasshopper	det
10	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 mad	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 got	parataxis
13	for	for	ADP	_	12 what	case
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 real	punct

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

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

he sang all day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 day	det
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he				day		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he spent summer singing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 spent	nsubj
2	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 singing	compound
4	singing	singing	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 spent	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spend	past	he	summer singing					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent singing=Asset

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

he sang all summer and saved nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sang	nsubj
2	sang	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 summer	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sang	obl:unmarked
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 saved	cc
6	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sang	conj
7	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 saved	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	past	he				summer		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
2	save	past	he not said here	nothing					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

Option 4

he ate all the grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 grain	det:predet
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grain	det
5	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj

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

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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