Test 4 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Who's the one that gets smashed to bits on the road, innit?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be, smash, innit · To what, where: one, road

This is test 4 · ★ 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	Who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 one	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 one	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 smashed	nsubj:pass
6	gets	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 smashed	aux:pass
7	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 one	acl:relcl
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 bits	case
9	bits	bit	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 smashed	obl
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 road	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 road	det
12	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 smashed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 innit	punct
14	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 one	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the one			tree rules
2	smash	present · passive	the one	the road	to bits	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme to bit=Destination
3	innit	infinitive				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 Earthen Pot that was too fragile to go

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pot	det
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pot	compound
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 fragile	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fragile	cop
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 fragile	advmod
7	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Pot	acl:relcl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 go	mark
9	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 fragile	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Earthen Pot					fragile property	tree rules
2	go	to-infinitive	the Earthen Pot not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

The Earthen Pot, the fragile one, all smashed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pot	det
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pot	compound
3	Pot	Pot	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 one	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 one	det
6	fragile	fragile	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 one	amod
7	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Pot	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Pot	punct
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 smashed	det
10	smashed	smashed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Pot	amod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

The Earthen Pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pot	det
2	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pot	compound
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

The Brass Pot

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Pot	det
2	Brass	Brass	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Pot	compound
3	Pot	pot	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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