Test 8 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

dude the dog just dropped the basket for the roast?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: dude, drop · To what, where: dog, basket

This is test 8 · ★ 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	dude	dude	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 dude	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 dropped	advmod
5	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 dude	advcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 basket	det
7	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dropped	obj
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 roast	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 roast	det
10	roast	roast	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 basket	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dude	imperative	you not said here	the dog					tree rules
2	drop	past	you not said here	the basket				for the roast	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent basket=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

no he didn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 did	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 did	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not do	past	he						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, he dropped it on the path

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 path	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 path	det
8	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it		the path			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme on path=Destination

Option 3

nah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, after he stopped to argue

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 stopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 stopped	punct
3	after	after	SCONJ	_	5 stopped	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stopped	nsubj
5	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 argue	mark
7	argue	argue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 stopped	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stop	past	he						vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	argue speech: disagree	to-infinitive	he not said here						vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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