Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

What did the Ass get done for, then?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: Ass

This is test 12 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 did	nsubj
2	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Ass	det
4	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	get	get	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 done	aux:pass
6	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 did	conj
7	for	for	ADP	_	6 done	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 done	punct
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	2 did	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the Ass			then		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Eventuality
2	do	infinitive · passive							vn act-114-1 «NP V»

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

eating some farmer's oats

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 oats	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		some farmer's oats					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oat=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

eating some priests' grass

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 priests	det
3	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grass	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 priests	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		some priests's grass					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=Patient

Option 3

nicking some priests' hay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nicking	nick	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 priests	det
3	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hay	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 priests	case
5	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nicking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nick	gerund		some priests's hay					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hay=Patient

Option 4

eating some priests' grass, the daft donkey, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 priests	det
3	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 grass	nmod:poss
4	'	's	PART	_	3 priests	case
5	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 eating	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 donkey	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 donkey	det
8	daft	daft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 donkey	amod
9	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bruv	punct
11	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grass	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	gerund		some priests's grass and the daft donkey and bruv					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grass=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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