Test 11 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…
did the mom wait for the friends?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom · What happens: wait
This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 377 «Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farmer must cut his wheat himself, so the larks fly away» 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 wait | aux |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mom | det |
| 3 | mom | mom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 friends | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 friends | det |
| 7 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wait | obl |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past · do-support | the mom | for the friends | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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, she said stay put now
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 said | ccomp |
| 6 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 stay | xcomp |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 put | advmod |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | stay | infinitive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | put | participle | now | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
Option 2 · ✓ the right answer
nah, she said be off at once
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 said | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 off | cop |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 said | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 said | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say off speech: assert | past | she | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
Option 3
yeah, she waited
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | yeah | yeah | INTJ | _ | 4 waited | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 waited | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waited | nsubj |
| 4 | waited | wait | 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 | wait | past | she | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4
nah, she left
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nah | nah | INTJ | _ | 4 left | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 nah | punct |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 left | nsubj |
| 4 | left | leave | 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 | leave | past | she | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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