Test 13 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…

what does "depend" mean here, ngl?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: depend, mean · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 13 · ★ 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	4 depend	obj
2	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 depend	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 depend	punct
4	depend	depend	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
6	mean	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 depend	parataxis
7	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 mean	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 ngl	punct
9	ngl	ngl	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 mean	parataxis
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 depend	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	depend in a quote	present · do-support							tree rules
2	mean	present				here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: 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

to pay someone else to do all your work for you, every single day of the week

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 pay	mark
2	pay	pay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	2 pay	obj
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 someone	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 pay	advcl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 work	det:predet
8	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 work	nmod:poss
9	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 do	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 do	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 day	punct
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 day	det
14	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 day	amod
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pay	obl:unmarked
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 week	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 week	det
18	week	week	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 day	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	to-infinitive		someone	day		vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Asset
2	do	to-infinitive		your work		for you	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
3	work		your				nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

rely on someone else for help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	rely	rely	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	on	on	ADP	_	3 someone	case
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	1 rely	obl
4	else	else	ADV	_	3 someone	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 help	case
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 rely	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rely	imperative	you not said here					for help; on someone	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on someone=Theme

Option 3

to hope someone will help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 hope	mark
2	hope	hope	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 help	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 help	aux
5	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 hope	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hope	to-infinitive							vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	help	future	someone						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

Option 4

to count on other people

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 count	mark
2	count	count	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 people	case
4	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 people	amod
5	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 count	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	count	to-infinitive						on other people	vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on people=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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