Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Wait, did the sons find gold when they dug everywhere?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, sons · What happens: wait, find, dig · To what, where: gold · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 find	punct
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sons	det
5	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 find	nsubj
6	find	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 find	obj
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	10 dug	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 dug	nsubj
10	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 find	ccomp
11	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	10 dug	advmod
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · do-support	the sons	gold		vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent gold=Attribute clause=Theme
3	dig	past	sons = son		everywhere property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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

Yeah, they found a huge pile of gold coins under the dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pile	det
6	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pile	amod
7	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 coins	case
9	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coins	compound
10	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 pile	nmod
11	under	under	ADP	_	13 dirt	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 dirt	det
13	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 coins	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	a huge pile of gold coins under the dirt					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pile=Topic

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, they found some gold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 found	nsubj
4	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 gold	det
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	some gold					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

No, the harvest made them rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	No	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 made	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 No	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 harvest	det
4	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 made	nsubj
5	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 made	obj
7	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 made	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	make	past	the harvest	them = they				rich property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product

Option 4

Yes, they dug everywhere and found gold in every single field

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 dug	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dug	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dug	nsubj
4	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	everywhere	everywhere	ADV	PronType=Tot	4 dug	advmod
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 found	cc
7	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dug	conj
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obj
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 field	case
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 field	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 field	amod
12	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 found	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig	past	they					everywhere property	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	find	past	they not said here	gold		every single field			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Topic

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