Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Did the Fox reckon the sheep were worth saving?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox, sheep · What happens: reckon, be, save

This is test 13 · ★ 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=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 reckon	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 reckon	nsubj
4	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 sheep	det
6	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 worth	nsubj
7	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 worth	cop
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 reckon	ccomp
9	saving	save	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 worth	xcomp
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	reckon	past · do-support	the Fox		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	the sheep	worth property	tree rules
3	save	gerund	the sheep not said here		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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

yeah, they were tasty, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 tasty	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 tasty	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tasty	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tasty	cop
5	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tasty	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					tasty property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, mutton heads, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	compound
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 nah	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 3

yeah, mutton heads, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 heads	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	mutton	mutton	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 heads	compound
4	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 said	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 heads	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he	mutton heads					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, they were lazy, he said

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lazy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 said	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 said	nsubj
8	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					lazy property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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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