Test 3 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…

wait so the friends never came, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, friends · What happens: wait, not come

This is test 3 · ★ 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 came	nsubj
5	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	6 came	advmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct
8	right	right	INTJ	_	1 wait	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	not come	past	the friends						vn escape-51.1-1 «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 · ✓ the right answer

yep, the farmer couldn't wait on them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	7 wait	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 farmer	det
4	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wait	nsubj
5	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 wait	aux
6	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	7 wait	advmod
7	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wait	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not wait	could	the farmer					on them = they	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on they=Location

Option 2

yep, they never came

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 came	nsubj
4	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 came	advmod
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not come	past	they						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, the friends came but left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 came	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 left	cc
7	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the friends						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	leave	past	the friends not said here						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

yep, the friends were busy that day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	6 busy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 friends	det
4	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 busy	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 busy	cop
6	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	8 day	det
8	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 busy	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the friends				day	busy property	tree rules

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