Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

Bruh, what did the Stork beg the farmer for?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Stork · What happens: beg · To what, where: farmer

This is test 5 · ★ 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	Bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Bruh	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 beg	aux
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Stork	det
6	Stork	Stork	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 beg	nsubj
7	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 farmer	det
9	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 beg	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	7 beg	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past · do-support	the Stork		the farmer				vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient

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

to live

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 live	mark
2	live	live	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

to be freed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 freed	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 freed	aux:pass
3	freed	free	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	free	to-infinitive · passive							vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

to be spared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	3 spared	mark
2	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	3 spared	aux:pass
3	spared	spare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	spare	to-infinitive · passive							vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»

Option 4

to stay

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	to	to	PART	_	2 stay	mark
2	stay	stay	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	to-infinitive							vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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