Test 8 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Why'd the Farmer pick up the cold Snake, like, what was he thinking?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Farmer · What happens: pick up, think · To what, where: cold Snake

This is test 8 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 pick	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 Farmer	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Farmer	det
4	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 pick	nsubj
5	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 pick	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Snake	det
8	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Snake	amod
9	Snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 pick	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
11	like	like	SCONJ	_	16 thinking	mark
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 like	punct
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 thinking	obj
14	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 thinking	aux
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 thinking	nsubj
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 pick	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up	present	the Farmer	the cold Snake					vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Topic
2	think speech: other	past · progressive	Farmer						vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=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 take it to the vet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 take	mark
2	take	take	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 take	obj
4	to	to	ADP	_	6 vet	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 vet	det
6	vet	vet	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take	to-infinitive		it		the vet			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to vet=Destination

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

To warm it back to life

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 warm	mark
2	warm	warm	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 warm	obj
4	back	back	ADV	_	2 warm	advmod
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 life	case
6	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 warm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	warm back	to-infinitive		it				to life	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 3

To save its life from frost

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	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 life	nmod:poss
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obj
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 frost	case
6	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 save	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	save	to-infinitive		its life		frost			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent life=Theme from frost=Source

Option 4

Just to see what it would do if it woke up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Just	just	ADV	_	3 see	advmod
2	to	to	PART	_	3 see	mark
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 do	obj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 do	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 do	aux
7	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 see	ccomp
8	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 woke	mark
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 woke	nsubj
10	woke	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 do	advcl
11	up	up	ADP	_	10 woke	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	roles by
1	see	to-infinitive		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	do	would	it	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
3	wake up a condition, not said to happen	past	it	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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