Test 2 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

Okay, the Hares were gonna jump off a cliff, proper?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hares · What happens: jump off · To what, where: cliff

This is test 2 · ★ 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	Okay	okay	INTJ	_	7 jump	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Okay	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Hares	det
4	Hares	hare	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 jump	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 jump	aux
6	gonna	gonna	X	Foreign=Yes	7 jump	dep
7	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
8	off	off	ADP	_	7 jump	compound:prt
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cliff	det
10	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 jump	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 proper	punct
12	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cliff	amod
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 jump	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	jump off	past	the Hares	a cliff					vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cliff=Trajectory

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 were fed up with fear

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fed	nsubj:pass
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fed	aux:pass
5	fed	feed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	up	up	ADP	_	5 fed	compound:prt
7	with	with	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed up	past · passive		they				with fear	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Recipient

Option 2

Nah, they just wanted a dip

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wanted	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 wanted	advmod
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 dip	det
7	dip	dip	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj

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

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, they were only going to splash into the lake, not jump off a cliff at all

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 going	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 going	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 going	aux
5	only	only	ADV	_	6 going	advmod
6	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 splash	mark
8	splash	splash	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 going	xcomp
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 lake	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lake	det
11	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 splash	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 jump	punct
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 jump	advmod
14	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 splash	conj
15	off	off	ADP	_	14 jump	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cliff	det
17	cliff	cliff	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 jump	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	19 all	case
19	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 jump	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	go	past · progressive	they			vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	splash	to-infinitive	they not said here		the lake	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into lake=Destination
3	not jump off	infinitive	they not said here	a cliff	all	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent cliff=Theme at all=Trajectory

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, they were sick of always being scared

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sick	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sick	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sick	cop
5	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	of	of	ADP	_	9 scared	case
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	9 scared	advmod
8	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 scared	cop
9	scared	scared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 sick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					sick property	tree rules
2	is	gerund						always, scared property	tree rules

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