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Test 13 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

The Miller and his lad kept switching who rode the Ass, right? Why?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Miller · What happens: keep, switch, ride · To what, where: Ass

This is test 13 · ★ 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

Sentence 1: The Miller and his lad kept switching who rode the Ass, right?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Miller	det
2	Miller	Miller	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 kept	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 lad	cc
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 lad	nmod:poss
5	lad	lad	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Miller	conj
6	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	switching	switch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 kept	xcomp
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 rode	nsubj
9	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 switching	ccomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Ass	det
11	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 rode	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 rode	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	9 rode	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 kept	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	the Miller and his lad						tree rules
2	switch	gerund	the Miller and his lad not said here						tree rules
3	ride	past		the Ass					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ass=Theme

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.

Sentence 2: Why?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	root	root
2	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

People kept complaining about who rode

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	People	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	complaining	complain	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	about	about	SCONJ	_	6 rode	mark
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 rode	nsubj
6	rode	ride	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 complaining	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	People						tree rules
2	complain speech: other	gerund	People not said here						vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	ride	past							vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Folk kept moaning whoever was walking or riding

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Folk	Folk	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	moaning	moan	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 kept	xcomp
4	whoever	whoever	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 walking	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 walking	aux
6	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 moaning	ccomp
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 riding	cc
8	riding	riding	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 walking	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	Folk						tree rules
2	moan	gerund	Folk not said here						vn complain-37.8 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	walk	past · progressive	whoever						vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

They were tired

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

Both of them wanted a rest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	4 wanted	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Both	nmod
4	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Both	a rest					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot rest=Theme

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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