Test 1 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Oi, why'd the farmer go proper mental and sling stones at them Cranes?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Oi · What happens: go

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 371 «Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin hungry cat dresses up as a doctor» 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	Oi	oi	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 go	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 go	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 farmer	det
6	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 go	nsubj
7	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	proper	properly	ADV	_	9 mental	advmod
9	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 Cranes	amod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 stones	cc
11	sling	sling	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 stones	compound
12	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 mental	conj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 them	case
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 mental	obl
15	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 go	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	infinitive	Oi						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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

To keep his wheat from birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 keep	mark
2	keep	keep	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 wheat	nmod:poss
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 keep	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 birds	case
6	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 keep	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	to-infinitive		his wheat				from birds	vn forbid-64.4 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer wheat=Beneficiary from bird=Eventuality

Option 2

Cos they was loud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 loud	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 loud	cop
4	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					loud property	tree rules

Option 3

Cos he was mad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 mad	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 mad	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 mad	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					mad property	tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To save some of his grain

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 save	mark
2	save	save	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 save	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 grain	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 grain	nmod:poss
6	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 some	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		some					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme

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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