Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Cat and the Birds: a cat posing as a d…

the farmer's sons dug up the whole vineyard for gold, did they find it?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sons · What happens: dig up, find · To what, where: whole vineyard, vineyard

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 farmer	det
2	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sons	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 farmer	case
4	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 find	nsubj
5	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 sons	acl
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 dug	compound:prt
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 vineyard	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 vineyard	amod
9	vineyard	vineyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dug	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 gold	case
11	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 vineyard	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sons	punct
13	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 find	aux
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	nsubj
15	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 find	obj
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	15 find	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dig up	participle	the farmer's sons not said here	the whole vineyard				for gold	vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent vineyard=Result for gold=Beneficiary
2	find	past · do-support	the farmer's sons	vineyard					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic

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

nah, no gold, but the harvest of grapes was huge and sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	12 huge	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gold	punct
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 nah	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 huge	punct
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 huge	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 harvest	det
8	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 huge	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 grapes	case
10	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 harvest	nmod
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 huge	cop
12	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 sweet	cc
14	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 huge	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the harvest of grapes					huge property	tree rules
2	be		the harvest of grapes not said here						tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

nah, but the grapes went crazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	6 went	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 grapes	det
5	grapes	grape	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	crazy	crazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 went	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	the grapes					crazy property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they just found dirt

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 found	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 found	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 found	advmod
5	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	dirt	dirt	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 found	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	they	dirt					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dirt=Topic

Option 4

nah, but the crop was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	7 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	but	but	CCONJ	_	7 fine	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crop	det
5	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 fine	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 fine	cop
7	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

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