Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Cat and the Birds, part 1: a thin…

Didn't the Snake bite the bloke who saved it, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: Snake, bloke · What happens: bite, save · To what, where: bloke

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 Snake	aux
2	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 Snake	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Snake	det
4	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 bite	nsubj
5	bite	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bloke	det
7	bloke	bloke	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bite	obj
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 saved	nsubj
9	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 bloke	acl:relcl
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 saved	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bite	punct
12	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bite	discourse
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 bite	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	present	the Snake	the bloke					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bloke=Patient
2	save	past	the bloke	bloke					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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

No, it ran off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

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

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	it						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

Yes, it bit him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	it	him = he					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Yes, it bit the lad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	4 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yes	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bit	nsubj
4	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lad	det
6	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 bit	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	it	the lad					vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lad=Patient

Option 4

Yeah, it fled

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fled	nsubj
4	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flee	past	it						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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