Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…

did the farmer's son help or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: do, help · To what, where: son help

This is test 6 · ★ 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	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 farmer	case
5	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 help	compound
6	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 did	obl
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 nah	cc
8	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 help	discourse
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the farmer's son help					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	help		the farmer						nom help «act transitive»: poss=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

yeah, he fetched the rope, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 fetched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 fetched	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 fetched	nsubj
4	fetched	fetch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rope	det
6	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fetched	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 bro	punct
8	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rope	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fetch	past	he	the rope and bro					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

helped cut the grain, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 helped	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 grain	det
4	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cut	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bro	punct
6	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 grain	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past							vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	cut	infinitive		the grain and bro					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset grain=Product

Option 3

nah, he was napping, bro

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 napping	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 napping	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 napping	aux
5	napping	nap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bro	punct
7	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 napping	parataxis

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	nap	past · progressive	he						vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, just watched

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 watched	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	4 watched	advmod
4	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	participle							vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent

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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