Test 9 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Woodman and Mercury: an honest woo…

bruh, why did the Lion finally pounce?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Lion

This is test 9 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	4 did	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 bruh	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	4 did	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Lion	det
6	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
7	finally	finally	ADV	_	8 pounce	advmod
8	pounce	pounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obl
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Lion				pounce obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Eventuality

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

they were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					hungry property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

the Bullocks had a quarrel

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bullocks	det
2	Bullocks	Bullock	PROPN	Number=Plur	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 quarrel	det
5	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Bullocks	a quarrel					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quarrel=Patient

Option 3

the Bullocks all fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bullocks	det
2	Bullocks	Bullock	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 fell	nsubj
3	all	all	ADV	_	4 fell	advmod
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the Bullocks					all, asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

the Bullocks grew sleepy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Bullocks	det
2	Bullocks	bullock	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 grew	nsubj
3	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	sleepy	sleepy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 grew	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	the Bullocks					sleepy property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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