Test 4 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

bro he took the cap off too, right?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro · What happens: take off · To what, where: cap

This is test 4 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 took	nsubj
3	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cap	det
5	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 took	obj
6	off	off	ADP	_	3 took	compound:prt
7	too	too	ADV	_	3 took	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct
9	right	right	INTJ	_	3 took	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 took	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take off	past	bro	the cap					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cap=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

nah, just the cloak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cloak	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	just	just	ADV	_	5 cloak	advmod
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 cloak	det
5	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

yep, then he wiped his face

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 wiped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 wiped	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wiped	nsubj
5	wiped	wipe	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 face	nmod:poss
7	face	face	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wiped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wipe	past	he	his face			then		vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent face=Source

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

yep, then he mopped his brow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 mopped	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 mopped	advmod
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 mopped	nsubj
5	mopped	mop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 brow	nmod:poss
7	brow	brow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 mopped	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mop	past	he	his brow			then		vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent brow=Initial_Location

Option 4

nope, kept it on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nope	nope	INTJ	_	3 kept	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nope	punct
3	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 kept	obj
5	on	on	ADP	_	3 kept	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep on	past		it					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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