Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Miser, part 1: a Miser's buried gold i…

Why'd the beetle wreck the eagle's nest?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: beetle · What happens: wreck · To what, where: nest

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 wreck	advmod
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 wreck	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 beetle	det
4	beetle	beetle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wreck	nsubj
5	wreck	wreck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 eagle	det
7	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 nest	nmod:poss
8	's	's	PART	_	7 eagle	case
9	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wreck	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wreck	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	would	the beetle	the eagle's nest					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Patient

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

Cos the eagle nicked her hare right out from under her nose

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 nicked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hare	nmod:poss
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	8 out	advmod
8	out	out	ADV	_	4 nicked	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	12 nose	case
10	under	under	ADP	_	12 nose	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 nose	nmod:poss
12	nose	nose	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the eagle	eagle's hare		eagle's nose		out property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent hare=Theme from nose=Source

Option 2

Cos the eagle nicked her egg

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 nicked	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 egg	nmod:poss
6	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the eagle	eagle's egg					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

Option 3

Cos the eagle had nicked her hare and wouldn't give it back

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 eagle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obl
4	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 nicked	aux
5	nicked	nick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hare	nmod:poss
7	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 nicked	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 give	cc
9	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 give	aux
10	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 give	advmod
11	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 nicked	conj
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 give	obj
13	back	back	ADV	_	11 give	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past · perfect		eagle's hare				cos the eagle	vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient
2	not give back	would		hare					vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cos the eagle nicked her hare

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 eagle	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eagle	det
3	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	nsubj
4	nicked	nick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 hare	nmod:poss
6	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 nicked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	past	the eagle	eagle's hare					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hare=Patient

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