Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lark and Her Young Ones, part 15: the…

Hold up, did the Wasps build a comb or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Wasps · What happens: hold up, build · To what, where: comb

This is test 7 · ★ 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	Hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Hold	compound:prt
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 build	punct
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 build	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Wasps	det
6	Wasps	Wasp	PROPN	Number=Plur	7 build	nsubj
7	build	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Hold	conj
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 comb	det
9	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 build	obj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 nah	cc
11	nah	nah	INTJ	_	9 comb	conj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Hold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hold up	imperative	you not said here						vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
2	build	past · do-support	the Wasps	a comb					vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent comb=Product

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

nah, they couldn't build a comb cos they had no wax, bro

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 build	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 build	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 build	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 build	advmod
6	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cos	det
8	comb	comb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 cos	compound
9	cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 build	obj
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 cos	acl:relcl
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 wax	det
13	wax	wax	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bro	punct
15	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 build	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not build	could	they	a comb cos					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset cos=Product
2	have	past	they	no wax					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wax=Patient

Option 2

yeah, they could

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 could	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

nah, they couldn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 could	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 could	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 could	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4

nah, they wouldn't

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 would	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 would	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 would	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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