Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a…

Dude, what did the bragger reckon about his Rhodes jump?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Dude · What happens: reckon, jump

This is test 9 · ★ of lesson 366 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass, the Fox, and the Lion, part 1: a sly Fox plots to trap his foolish Ass friend in a pit for a hungry Lion» 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	7 reckon	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 reckon	obj
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 reckon	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bragger	det
6	bragger	bragger	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 reckon	nsubj
7	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	about	about	ADP	_	10 Rhodes	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 Rhodes	nmod:poss
10	Rhodes	rhode	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 reckon	obl
11	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 reckon	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	Dude					about bragger's Rhodes	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute
2	jump	infinitive	Dude not said here						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nobody else could jump near that far, and the whole crowd saw him do it in the square

The tree, 18 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 jump	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Nobody	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 jump	obl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 jump	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 saw	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 crowd	det
11	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 crowd	amod
12	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	nsubj
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	obj
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 jump	conj
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 do	obj
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 square	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 square	det
19	square	square	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 do	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	jump	could	Nobody		that	far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near that=Trajectory
2	see	past	the whole crowd	him = he			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
3	do	infinitive	Nobody not said here	crowd	the square		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody else could jump near that far

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 jump	nsubj
2	else	else	ADV	_	1 Nobody	advmod
3	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 jump	aux
4	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	6 that	case
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 jump	obl
7	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 jump	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	could	Nobody			that		far property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near that=Trajectory

Option 3

No one jumped that high

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 one	det
2	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 high	mark
5	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 jumped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump	past	no one						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Nobody beat his leap, fam

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 beat	nsubj
2	beat	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 leap	nmod:poss
4	leap	leap	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 beat	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fam	punct
6	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 leap	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	past	Nobody	his leap and fam					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location leap=Theme
2	leap		his = he						nom leap «act transitive»: poss=agent

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