Test 7 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones: the farme…
so what's the lesson, deadass?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: lesson
This is test 7 · ★ 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 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 lesson | advmod |
| 2 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 lesson | nsubj |
| 3 | 's | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 lesson | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 lesson | det |
| 5 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 deadass | punct |
| 7 | deadass | deadass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lesson | appos |
| 8 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 lesson | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | the lesson | tree rules |
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
work with your friends, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 friends | case |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 work | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 6 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | conj |
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
Option 2
never trust your friends, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 2 trust | advmod |
| 2 | trust | trust | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friends | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 trust | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fam | punct |
| 6 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 friends | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not trust | imperative | you not said here | your friends and fam | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
Option 3
the lesson is that the birds should always leave the field before the farmer comes back, fam
The tree, 17 words
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 lesson | det |
| 2 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | cop |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 leave | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 birds | det |
| 6 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 7 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 9 leave | advmod |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 field | det |
| 11 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 12 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 15 comes | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 farmer | det |
| 14 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 comes | nsubj |
| 15 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | advcl |
| 16 | back | back | ADV | _ | 15 comes | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 fam | punct |
| 18 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obl |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | should · present | the lesson | fam obl; always, leave property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come back | present | the farmer | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
Option 4 · ✓ the right answer
self-help is the best help, fam
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 help | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 self | punct |
| 3 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 help | cop |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 help | det |
| 6 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 7 help | amod |
| 7 | help | help | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fam | punct |
| 9 | fam | fam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 help | conj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | self help | the best help and fam | tree rules |
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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