Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Was the dog a proper muppet with that bone or what?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: dog

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 dog	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muppet	csubj
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 muppet	det
5	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 muppet	amod
6	muppet	muppet	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 bone	case
8	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 bone	det
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 muppet	nmod
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 what	cc
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 bone	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 muppet	punct

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

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

nah, he barked at a cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 barked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 barked	nsubj
4	barked	bark	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 cat	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 cat	det
7	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 barked	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bark	past	he					at a cat	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent at cat=Stimulus

Option 2

yeah, he chased his mate in the river

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 chased	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 chased	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 chased	nsubj
4	chased	chase	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 mate	nmod:poss
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 river	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 river	det
9	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chased	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chase	past	he	his mate		the river			vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent mate=Theme in river=Trajectory

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yeah, he dropped it for his reflection

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reflection	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reflection	nmod:poss
8	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it				for his reflection	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 4

yeah, he dropped it for his reflection and then got soaked in the river, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 dropped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 dropped	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	nsubj
4	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dropped	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 reflection	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 reflection	nmod:poss
8	reflection	reflection	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dropped	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 soaked	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 soaked	advmod
11	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 soaked	aux:pass
12	soaked	soak	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 dropped	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 river	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 river	det
15	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 soaked	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 river	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drop	past	he	it				for his reflection	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	soak	past · passive	he not said here				then	in the river and bruv	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: in river=Theme

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