Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

What did the goatherd do, the cheeky git?

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

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 373 «Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold is stolen, and a stranger gives strange advice» 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 goatherd	det
4	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 goatherd	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 git	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 git	det
8	cheeky	cheeky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 git	amod
9	git	git	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 goatherd	conj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the goatherd and the cheeky git					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goatherd=Eventuality
2	do	present	the goatherd and the cheeky git not said here						vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Kicked it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Kicked	kick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Kicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kick	past		it					vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Chucked a stone and snapped its horn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 snapped	advcl
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 stone	det
3	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chucked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 snapped	cc
5	snapped	snap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horn	nmod:poss
7	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 snapped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	participle		a stone					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme
2	snap	past		stone's horn					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme

Option 3

Chucked a rock and cut it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chucked	chuck	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 rock	det
3	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chucked	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 cut	cc
5	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Chucked	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cut	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chuck	participle		a rock					vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rock=Theme
2	cut	infinitive		rock					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product

Option 4

Hit it with a stick

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hit	hit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Hit	obj
3	with	with	ADP	_	5 stick	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 stick	det
5	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Hit	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hit	imperative	you not said here	it				with a stick	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with stick=Instrument

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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