Test 5 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Ain't the Goose the one that got whacked for its eggs, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: whack · To what, where: Goose one

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Ai	ai	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 one	nsubj
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 one	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
4	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 one	compound
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 one	det
6	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 whacked	nsubj:pass
8	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 whacked	aux:pass
9	whacked	whack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 one	acl:relcl
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 eggs	case
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 eggs	nmod:poss
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 whacked	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 yeah	punct
14	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 one	discourse
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 one	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past · passive		the Goose one				for Ai's eggs	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

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

The Countryman's Goose, who got whacked, right, for its eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 whacked	nsubj:pass
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Countryman	case
4	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 whacked	nsubj:pass
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 whacked	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 whacked	nsubj
7	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 whacked	aux:pass
8	whacked	whack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eggs	punct
10	right	right	INTJ	_	14 eggs	discourse
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eggs	punct
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 eggs	case
13	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eggs	nmod:poss
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 whacked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	whack	past · passive		the Countryman				for Countryman's eggs	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

The Countryman's Goose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Goose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Countryman	case
4	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3

The Countryman's Cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Cat	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Countryman	case
4	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The Countryman's Goose that laid the golden eggs

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	Countryman	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Goose	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 Countryman	case
4	Goose	goose	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 laid	nsubj
5	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 laid	nsubj
6	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 laid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lay	past	the Countryman's Goose	the golden eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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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