Test 12 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…

what did the wheat need, like fr?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: wheat · What happens: do, need · To what, where: wheat

This is test 12 · ★ 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	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 wheat	det
4	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	obj
5	need	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 wheat	acl:relcl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 fr	punct
7	like	like	ADP	_	8 fr	case
8	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 did	conj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the wheat					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wheat=Eventuality
2	need	present	the wheat not said here						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot

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

to sit in the field until the friends come over to help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 sit	mark
2	sit	sit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sit	obl
6	until	until	SCONJ	_	9 come	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 friends	det
8	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 come	nsubj
9	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 sit	advcl
10	over	over	ADV	_	9 come	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	12 help	mark
12	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 come	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	sit	to-infinitive		the field		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in field=Location
2	come over	present	the friends		over property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	help	to-infinitive	the friends not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 2

to be sold at market

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 sold	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 sold	aux:pass
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 market	case
5	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	to-infinitive · passive				market			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: at market=Asset

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to be cut right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 cut	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 cut	aux:pass
3	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	right	right	ADV	_	5 now	advmod
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 cut	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut	to-infinitive · passive					now		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»

Option 4

to be left for later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 left	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 left	aux:pass
3	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 later	case
5	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	3 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	to-infinitive · passive						late property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»

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