Test 2 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

no cap, what did the honest dude say when Mercury showed him the gold axe?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: cap, Mercury · What happens: do, say, show · To what, where: honest dude, gold axe, him · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 372 «Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woodman gets all three axes» 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 say	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 did	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	5 did	nsubj
5	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 cap	acl:relcl
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dude	det
7	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 dude	amod
8	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 did	obj
9	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 showed	advmod
11	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 showed	nsubj
12	showed	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 say	ccomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 showed	iobj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 axe	det
15	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 axe	compound
16	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 showed	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	do	past	no cap	the honest dude		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dude=Eventuality
2	say speech: assert	present	no cap			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	show	past	Mercury	the gold axe	him = he	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient axe=Topic

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 right answer

"that's not my axe"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 axe	punct
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 axe	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 axe	cop
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 axe	advmod
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 axe	nmod:poss
6	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 axe	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a in a quote	present	that	my axe					tree rules

Option 2

no cap that's not my axe, i'm honest lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 axe	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	7 axe	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 axe	cop
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 axe	advmod
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 axe	nmod:poss
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 honest	punct
9	i	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 honest	nsubj
10	'm	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 honest	cop
11	honest	honest	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 axe	acl:relcl
12	lol	lol	INTJ	_	11 honest	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	no cap	my axe					tree rules
2	is	present	i	my axe not said here				honest property	tree rules

Option 3

that ain't my axe

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 ai	nsubj
2	ai	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 ai	advmod
4	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 axe	nmod:poss
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ai	obj

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

Option 4

bruh that's literally not my axe fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	8 fr	discourse
2	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 fr	nsubj
3	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 fr	cop
4	literally	literally	ADV	_	8 fr	advmod
5	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 fr	advmod
6	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fr	nmod:poss
7	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fr	compound
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not is a	present	that	my axe fr				literally property	tree rules

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