Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Farmer and the Stork: a Farmer's nets…

Real talk, what did the farmer say the Stork had to do?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer, Stork · What happens: say, have, do · To what, where: Real talk · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 9 · ★ 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	Real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 say	punct
4	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	8 say	obj
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 farmer	det
7	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 say	nsubj
8	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 talk	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Stork	det
10	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 say	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 do	mark
13	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 had	xcomp
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past · do-support	the farmer	Real talk	tree rules
2	have	past	the Stork		tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the Stork not said here		vn act-114-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

die with the Cranes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 Cranes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cranes	det
4	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 die	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here					with the Cranes	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 2

die with the Cranes, no escape

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 Cranes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cranes	det
4	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 die	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 escape	punct
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 escape	det
7	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 Cranes	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here					with the Cranes and no escape	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 3

die with the Cranes at sunrise tomorrow

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	die	die	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	with	with	ADP	_	4 Cranes	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Cranes	det
4	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	1 die	obl
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 sunrise	case
6	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 die	obl
7	tomorrow	tomorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 die	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	imperative	you not said here				sunrise; tomorrow	with the Cranes	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

be eaten at dawn

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	2 eaten	aux:pass
2	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 dawn	case
4	dawn	dawn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eaten	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	infinitive · passive					dawn		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»

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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