Test 1 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

yo did the peacock actually get to fly or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: yo · What happens: do, get, fly · To what, where: peacock

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 368 «Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock's heavy train keeps him from flying» 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	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 peacock	det
4	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	actually	actually	ADV	_	6 get	advmod
6	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 did	advcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 fly	mark
8	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 get	xcomp
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 nah	cc
10	nah	nah	INTJ	_	8 fly	discourse
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	do	past	yo	the peacock		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent peacock=Eventuality
2	get	present	yo not said here		actually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
3	fly	to-infinitive	yo not said here			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «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

yeah, he flew up to the sky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 flew	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flew	nsubj
4	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 flew	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 sky	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sky	det
8	sky	sky	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flew	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly up	past	he					to the sky result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to sky=Result

Option 2

yeah he flew, but only for a second before crashing down

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 flew	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 flew	nsubj
3	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 second	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	9 second	cc
6	only	only	ADV	_	9 second	advmod
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 second	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 second	det
9	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 flew	conj
10	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 crashing	mark
11	crashing	crash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 flew	advcl
12	down	down	ADV	_	11 crashing	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly	past	he						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	crash down	gerund	he not said here					down property	vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

Option 3

nah, he flopped around on the ground for a while longer

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 flopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 flopped	nsubj
4	flopped	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	around	around	ADV	_	4 flopped	advmod
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flopped	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 while	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 while	det
11	while	while	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 flopped	obl
12	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	4 flopped	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop around	past	he			the ground	while	around, long property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

nah, he stayed stuck on the ground

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stuck	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stuck	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 stuck	aux:pass
5	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 ground	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 ground	det
8	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stuck	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stick	past · passive		he		the ground			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on ground=Destination

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