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Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…

Mum said grasp the Nettle proper hard, yeah? Then what happens to it?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Mum · What happens: say, grasp, happen · To what, where: Nettle · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 375 «Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14: a Stag borrows wheat on the Wolf's word» 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

Sentence 1: Mum said grasp the Nettle proper hard, yeah?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	grasp	grasp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Nettle	det
5	Nettle	Nettle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 grasp	obj
6	proper	properly	ADV	_	7 hard	advmod
7	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 grasp	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 grasp	punct
9	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 grasp	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grasp	infinitive		the Nettle				hard property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nettle=Stimulus

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.

Sentence 2: Then what happens to it?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 happens	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 happens	nsubj
3	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 happens	obl
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	happen	present			Nettle		then		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

The options

Option 1

it gets slippery and wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gets	nsubj
2	gets	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	slippery	slippery	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 gets	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 wet	cc
5	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 slippery	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present	it					slippery property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

it goes soft and smooth in your hand like a piece of silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 smooth	cc
5	smooth	smooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 soft	conj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 hand	case
7	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hand	nmod:poss
8	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
9	like	like	ADP	_	11 piece	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 piece	det
11	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 goes	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 silk	case
13	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 piece	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it			your hand		like a piece of silk; soft property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in hand=Location

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

it goes soft like silk

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 goes	nsubj
2	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 goes	xcomp
4	like	like	ADP	_	5 silk	case
5	silk	silk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 soft	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	present	it					soft property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it turns into a snake

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turns	nsubj
2	turns	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	into	into	ADP	_	5 snake	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 snake	det
5	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turns	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn	present	it					into a snake result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into snake=Result

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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