Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

bruh the birds literally yoinked all his feathers, like fr?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: birds · What happens: yoink · To what, where: feathers

This is test 3 · ★ 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	bruh	bruh	INTJ	_	3 birds	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 yoinked	nsubj
4	literally	literally	ADV	_	5 yoinked	advmod
5	yoinked	yoink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 feathers	det:predet
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 feathers	nmod:poss
8	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 yoinked	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fr	punct
10	like	like	ADP	_	11 fr	case
11	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 yoinked	obl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 yoinked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	yoink	past	the birds	his feathers				like fr; literally property	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

yeah, they clowned him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 clowned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 clowned	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clowned	nsubj
4	clowned	clown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 clowned	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	clown	past	they	him = he					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they roasted him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 roasted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 roasted	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roasted	nsubj
4	roasted	roast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 roasted	obj
6	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 roasted	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roast	past	they	him = he				hard property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, they cooked him bad

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cooked	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cooked	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	nsubj
4	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cooked	obj
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 cooked	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past	they	him = he				bad property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 4

yeah they dragged him hard

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 dragged	discourse
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	nsubj
3	dragged	drag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 dragged	obj
5	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 dragged	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drag	past	they	him = he				hard property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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