Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Peacock and Juno: the vain Peacock…

jackdaw in borrowed feathers, that's so cringe, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: that · What happens: borrow, be · To what, where: cringe

This is test 9 · ★ 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	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 feathers	case
3	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 feathers	amod
4	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 jackdaw	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cringe	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 cringe	nsubj
7	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 cringe	cop
8	so	so	ADV	_	9 cringe	advmod
9	cringe	cringe	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 jackdaw	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 jackdaw	punct
11	right	right	INTJ	_	1 jackdaw	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 jackdaw	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	borrow	participle							vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	is a	present	that	cringe					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 · ← Mova's choice

the peacocks pecked and plucked every borrowed feather from his body

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peacocks	det
2	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	pecked	peck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 peacocks	acl
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 plucked	cc
5	plucked	pluck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 pecked	conj
6	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	8 feather	det
7	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 feather	amod
8	feather	feather	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 plucked	obj
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 body	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 body	nmod:poss
11	body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feather	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	roles by
1	peck	participle	the peacocks not said here		vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	pluck	participle	every borrowed feather	his body	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent feather=Theme from body=Source
3	borrow	participle			vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the peacocks plucked him all over

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peacocks	det
2	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 plucked	nsubj
3	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 plucked	obj
5	all	all	ADV	_	6 over	advmod
6	over	over	ADV	_	3 plucked	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pluck	past	the peacocks	him = he				over property	vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

yeah the peacocks ripped off all his borrowed feathers and left him bare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 ripped	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peacocks	det
3	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ripped	nsubj
4	ripped	rip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ripped	compound:prt
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 feathers	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 feathers	nmod:poss
8	borrowed	borrow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 feathers	amod
9	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ripped	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 left	cc
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ripped	conj
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 left	obj
13	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 left	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	rip off	past	the peacocks	his borrowed feathers		vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
2	borrow	participle				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	leave	past	the peacocks not said here	him = he	bare property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

the peacocks chased him away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 peacocks	det
2	peacocks	peacock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chased	nsubj
3	chased	chase	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chased	obj
5	away	away	ADV	_	3 chased	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase away	past	the peacocks	him = he				away property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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