Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

Fam, why were the Cranes called robbers?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 3 · right ✓ · Who acts: Cranes · What happens: be, call · To what, where: Cranes, robbers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 385 «Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets catch a Stork among Cranes, and his pleas fail.» 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	Fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Cranes	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 Cranes	advmod
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Cranes	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Cranes	det
6	Cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Fam	appos
7	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 Cranes	acl
8	robbers	robber	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 called	xcomp
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Fam	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the Cranes					tree rules
2	call	participle	the Cranes not said here	robbers					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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

they dug up the fields

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 dug	nsubj
2	dug	dig	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 dug	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fields	det
5	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 dug	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	past	they	the fields					vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent field=Theme

Option 2

they were hungry

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					hungry property	tree rules

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

they stole the seed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 stole	nsubj
2	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 seed	det
4	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 stole	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	they	the seed					vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location seed=Theme

Option 4

they ate the crops

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crops	det
4	crops	crop	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	the crops					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Patient

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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