Test 14 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

lol so the traveler basically played both sides?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: traveler · What happens: play · To what, where: sides

This is test 14 · ★ of lesson 378 «Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak settles the quarrel» 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	6 played	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	6 played	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 traveler	det
4	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 played	nsubj
5	basically	basically	ADV	_	6 played	advmod
6	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	8 sides	det
8	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 played	obj
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 played	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past	the traveler	both sides				basically property	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=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

nope, he quit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 quit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	quit	past	he						vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

nah, he just reacted to each

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 reacted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reacted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 reacted	advmod
5	reacted	react	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 each	case
7	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	5 reacted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	react	past	he					to each	vn respond-113 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to each=Theme

Option 3

yeah, he picked sides

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 picked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 picked	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 picked	nsubj
4	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	sides	side	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 picked	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	past	he	sides					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient

Option 4

nah, he just stood still

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 stood	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stood	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod
5	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	still	still	ADV	_	5 stood	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stand	past	he				still		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: 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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