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Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, part 14…

Flies went mental for that honey, right? What got them stuck?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: Flies · What happens: go, get · To what, where: Flies

This is test 9 · ★ 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: Flies went mental for that honey, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 went	nsubj
2	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	mental	mental	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 went	xcomp
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 honey	case
5	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 honey	det
6	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 went	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	2 went	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	Flies					for that honey; mental property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for honey=Beneficiary

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: What got them stuck?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 got	nsubj
2	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 got	obj
4	stuck	stuck	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 got	xcomp
5	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past		Flies = fly				stuck property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus

The options

Option 1

the honey had gone bad and poisoned each one of them where they sat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gone	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gone	xcomp
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 poisoned	cc
7	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 gone	conj
8	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	9 one	det
9	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 poisoned	obj
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 one	nmod
12	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	14 sat	advmod
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 sat	nsubj
14	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 one	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · perfect	the honey					bad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	poison	participle	the honey not said here	each one of them					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
3	sit	past	they						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2

the honey was too sticky

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 honey	det
2	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sticky	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sticky	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 sticky	advmod
5	sticky	sticky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 3

a spider caught them in its web

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 spider	det
2	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	nsubj
3	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 caught	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 web	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 web	nmod:poss
7	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 caught	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	catch	past	a spider	them = they		spider's web			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

their wings and feet glued in the goo

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 wings	nmod:poss
2	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 glued	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 feet	cc
4	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 wings	conj
5	glued	glue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 goo	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 goo	det
8	goo	goo	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 glued	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glue	participle	their wings and feet			the goo			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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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