Test 2 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…

ngl, why did the mom lark say bounce?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mom lark · What happens: say · To what, where: bounce · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 say	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 say	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lark	det
6	mom	mom	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lark	compound
7	lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	bounce	bounce	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	obj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the mom lark	bounce				ngl vocative	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bounce=Topic

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

cause the farmer's cutting the whole field himself with his son, so no more waiting around for anybody, ever, fr

The tree, 21 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 cutting	aux
5	cutting	cut	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cause	ccomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 field	det
7	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 field	amod
8	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	obj
9	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 field	nmod
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 son	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 son	nmod:poss
12	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cutting	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 waiting	punct
14	so	so	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod
15	no	no	ADV	_	16 more	advmod
16	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 waiting	aux
17	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 cause	advcl
18	around	around	ADV	_	17 waiting	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 anybody	case
20	anybody	anybody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	17 waiting	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ever	punct
22	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	1 cause	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 fr	punct
24	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		ever		tree rules
2	cut	present · progressive	the farmer	the whole field farmer		with farmer's son	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient with son=Instrument
3	wait around		you not said here			for anybody; around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

cause the friends might come, so we should wait around

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 friends	det
3	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 come	nsubj
4	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 come	aux
5	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 wait	punct
7	so	so	ADV	_	10 wait	advmod
8	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 wait	nsubj
9	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 wait	aux
10	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 cause	conj
11	around	around	ADV	_	10 wait	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	come	might	the friends		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	wait around	should	we	around property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

cause the farmer's gonna sleep in, so we bounce later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	gonna	gonna	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sleep	compound
6	sleep	sleep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
7	in	in	ADV	_	1 cause	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 bounce	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	11 bounce	advmod
10	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 bounce	nsubj
11	bounce	bounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 cause	conj
12	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	11 bounce	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	the farmer's gonna sleep		vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sleep=Patient
2	bounce	present	we		late property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	sleep		the farmer			nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

cause the farmer's doing it himself, so no more waiting

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obj
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	doing	do	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 farmer	acl
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 doing	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 doing	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 waiting	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 waiting	advmod
10	no	no	ADV	_	11 more	advmod
11	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 waiting	amod
12	waiting	waiting	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 cause	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here	the farmer				more waiting obl	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition farmer=Patient
2	do	gerund	the farmer not said here	farmer				himself = he obl	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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