Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Did the farmer say he'd reap it straight off?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: say, reap · To what, where: it · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 376 «Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the young Larks fear the reapers, but their mother says the wheat is not ready yet» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 farmer	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 say	nsubj
4	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reap	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 reap	aux
7	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 say	ccomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 reap	obj
9	straight	straight	ADV	_	10 off	advmod
10	off	off	ADV	_	7 reap	advmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	the farmer						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	reap	would	farmer	it				off property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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

yeah, he wanted his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 wanted	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mates	nmod:poss
6	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his mates					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot mate=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he wanted his neighbours first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neighbours	nmod:poss
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wanted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his neighbours				first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot neighbour=Theme

Option 3

nah, he waited for lunch

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 waited	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 waited	nsubj
4	waited	wait	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 lunch	case
6	lunch	lunch	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 waited	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past	he					for lunch	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah, he wanted his neighbours first and then his mates at the pub

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 wanted	nsubj
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 neighbours	nmod:poss
6	neighbours	neighbour	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 wanted	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 mates	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 mates	advmod
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 mates	nmod:poss
11	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 wanted	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 pub	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pub	det
14	pub	pub	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he	his neighbours		the pub		first property	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot neighbour=Theme

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