Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Why did the mum lark tell them to chill?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: tell, chill · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 tell	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mum	det
4	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	nsubj
5	lark	lark	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 tell	aux
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 tell	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 chill	mark
9	chill	chill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 tell	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 tell	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the mum		them = they				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	chill not said to happen	to-infinitive	the mum not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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 field was too wet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 field	det
3	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 wet	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 wet	cop
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 wet	advmod
6	wet	wet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	is	past	the field					wet property	tree rules

Option 2

cos the corn wasn't cut yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 corn	det
3	corn	corn	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cut	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cut	aux:pass
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 cut	advmod
6	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 cos	parataxis
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	1 cos	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here				yet		tree rules
2	not cut	past · passive		the corn					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product

Option 3

cos the wheat wasn't ready yet and the farmer was still chatting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheat	det
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	1 cos	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 chatting	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 farmer	det
10	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 chatting	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 chatting	aux
12	still	still	ADV	_	13 chatting	advmod
13	chatting	chat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cos	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here	yet		tree rules
2	not is	past	the wheat		ready property	tree rules
3	chat speech: other	past · progressive	the farmer	still		vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cos the wheat wasn't ready yet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cos	cos	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wheat	det
3	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ready	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 ready	cop
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 ready	advmod
6	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 cos	ccomp
7	yet	yet	ADV	_	6 ready	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cos	imperative	you not said here						tree rules
2	not is	past	the wheat				yet	ready property	tree rules

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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