Test 6 · ★ · Aesop for Children, The North Wind and the Sun: a cloak se…

what's the moral here, fam?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: moral · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 what	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 moral	det
4	moral	moral	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 what	nsubj
5	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 moral	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 fam	punct
7	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moral	conj
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	the moral and fam						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

soft talk beats big noise, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	soft	soft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	nsubj
3	beats	beat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 noise	amod
5	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 beats	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 beats	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 beats	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	present	soft talk	big noise					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location noise=Theme

Option 2

kindness wins every time, so be gentle and never shout at anyone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	kindness	kindness	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wins	nsubj
2	wins	win	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wins	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gentle	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	8 gentle	advmod
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 gentle	cop
8	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wins	parataxis
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shout	cc
10	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	11 shout	advmod
11	shout	shout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gentle	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 anyone	case
13	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	11 shout	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	win	present	kindness		time		vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	infinitive				gentle property	tree rules
3	not shout speech: express	infinitive		anyone			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the wind is best, so use force and blow hard in every fight

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 best	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 best	cop
4	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 use	punct
6	so	so	ADV	_	7 use	advmod
7	use	use	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	4 best	parataxis
8	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 use	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blow	cc
10	blow	blow	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	7 use	conj
11	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 blow	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 fight	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 fight	det
14	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blow	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	the wind			good property	tree rules
2	use	infinitive		force			vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient
3	blow	infinitive			every fight	hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

gentle wins where bluster flops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	gentle	gentle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 wins	amod
2	wins	win	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	5 flops	advmod
4	bluster	bluster	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flops	nsubj
5	flops	flop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 wins	acl:relcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	flop	present	bluster						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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