Test 11 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Them Wild Goats liked the Goatherd's feeding, innit?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Wild Goats, Goatherd · What happens: like, innit, feed · To what, where: feeding

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Them	them	DET	PronType=Dem	3 Goats	det
2	Wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Goats	amod
3	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 liked	nsubj
4	liked	like	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Goatherd	det
6	Goatherd	Goatherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 feeding	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Goatherd	case
8	feeding	feeding	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 liked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 innit	punct
10	innit	innit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 liked	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 liked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	like	past	them Wild Goats	the Goatherd's feeding	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot feeding=Theme
2	innit	infinitive	them Wild Goats not said here		tree rules
3	feed		the Goatherd		nom feeding «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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

Yes, they ate it all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ate	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ate	obj
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 it	det

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	it					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

No, they ran off to the hills

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 ran	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ran	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 hills	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hills	det
8	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 ran	obl

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

Option 3

No, they wandered off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	4 wandered	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wandered	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wandered	nsubj
4	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 wandered	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander off	past	they						vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

Yes, they loved it so much they stayed in his pen all year

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 loved	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 loved	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	nsubj
4	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 stayed	advcl
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 loved	obj
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 much	advmod
7	much	much	ADV	_	9 stayed	advmod
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 stayed	nsubj
9	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 pen	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 pen	nmod:poss
12	pen	pen	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 year	det
14	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 stayed	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past	they	it					vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	stay	past	they			his pen	year		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pen=Location

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