Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

ok but why did the jackdaw steal feathers, was he tryna be king or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: he · What happens: do, be · To what, where: jackdaw steal feathers, tryna king

This is test 2 · ★ of lesson 388 «Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a doctor is sent packing» 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	ok	ok	INTJ	_	3 why	discourse
2	but	but	CCONJ	_	3 why	cc
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	14 king	advmod
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 why	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 feathers	det
6	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	compound
7	steal	steal	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 feathers	compound
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 did	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 why	punct
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 king	cop
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 king	nsubj
12	tryna	tryna	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 king	compound
13	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	14 king	cop
14	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 nah	cc
16	nah	nah	INTJ	_	14 king	conj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	14 king	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	he not said here	the jackdaw steal feathers					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Eventuality
2	is a	past	he	tryna king					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

he wanted to be the top bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 bird	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	top	top	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the top bird					tree rules

Option 2

he was tryna be the most beautiful bird ever seen no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 bird	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 bird	cop
3	tryna	tryna	X	Foreign=Yes	8 bird	nsubj
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bird	det
6	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	7 beautiful	advmod
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bird	amod
8	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
9	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	10 seen	advmod
10	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 bird	acl
11	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	12 cap	det
12	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seen	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	the beautiful bird					tree rules
2	see	participle	the beautiful bird not said here	no cap			ever		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cap=Stimulus

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

he wanted to be the hottest bird

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 bird	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the hottest bird					tree rules

Option 4

he wanted to be the hottest bird in the whole flock fr

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	7 bird	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 bird	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 bird	det
6	hottest	hot	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 bird	amod
7	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	xcomp
8	in	in	ADP	_	12 fr	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 fr	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 fr	amod
11	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fr	compound
12	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	he			the whole flock fr			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is a not said to happen	to-infinitive	he not said here	the hottest bird					tree rules

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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