Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

The Lamp was dead proud of itself, innit, boasting about the sun?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Lamp · What happens: be, boast

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 393 «Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a bird begs for its life, a Cock argues, and many short animal tales follow» 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 Lamp	det
2	Lamp	Lamp	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 proud	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 proud	amod
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 itself	case
7	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 proud	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 innit	punct
9	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 proud	discourse
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 boasting	punct
11	boasting	boast	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 proud	conj
12	about	about	ADP	_	14 sun	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sun	det
14	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 boasting	obl
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 proud	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Lamp					of Lamp; proud property	tree rules
2	boast speech: other	gerund	the Lamp not said here					about the sun	vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent about sun=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 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, it was proud

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 proud	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 proud	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 proud	cop
5	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, it said it shone brighter than the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 shone	nsubj
6	shone	shine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	ccomp
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 shone	xcomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 brighter	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	shine	past	it					bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, it bragged it was brighter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 bragged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 bragged	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bragged	nsubj
4	bragged	brag	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 brighter	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 brighter	cop
7	brighter	bright	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 bragged	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	brag speech: other	past	it						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					bright property	tree rules

Option 4

Nah, it said it was dimmer than the sun

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dimmer	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 dimmer	cop
7	dimmer	dim	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	4 said	ccomp
8	than	than	ADP	_	10 sun	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sun	det
10	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dimmer	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	it						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is	past	it					than the sun; dim property	tree rules

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