Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs…

the Farmer's sling had no stones in it, that's wild

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sling, that · What happens: have, be · To what, where: stones

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 370 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Cock, part 9: the Fox runs off, the Cock wins, and more beast tales follow» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Farmer	det
2	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 sling	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Farmer	case
4	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 stones	det
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 it	case
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 had	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 wild	punct
11	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 wild	nsubj
12	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 wild	cop
13	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Farmer's sling	no stones				in Farmer	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient
2	is	present	that					wild property	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

yep, he just swung and yelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 swung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swung	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 swung	advmod
5	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 yelled	cc
7	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swung	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	he						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	yell speech: express	past	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

nah, it had some stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 stones	det
6	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	some stones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yep, he only swung it and yelled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 swung	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swung	nsubj
4	only	only	ADV	_	5 swung	advmod
5	swung	swing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 swung	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 yelled	cc
8	yelled	yell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swung	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swing	past	he	it					vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	yell speech: express	past	he not said here						vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, it had stones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	it	stones					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=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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