Test 3 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Birdcatcher and the Cock, part 14: a b…

Why did the Monkey go fishing, innit, when he'd never done it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Monkey · What happens: go, not do · To what, where: fishing

This is test 3 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	5 go	advmod
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 go	aux
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Monkey	det
4	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	nsubj
5	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	fishing	fishing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 go	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 innit	punct
8	innit	innit	INTJ	_	5 go	discourse
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 done	punct
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 done	advmod
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	nsubj
12	'd	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 done	aux
13	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	14 done	advmod
14	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 go	advcl
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 done	obj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 go	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past · do-support	the Monkey	fishing					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location fishing=Theme
2	not do	past · perfect	Monkey	fishing					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

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

He had seen the Fishermen's nets on the riverbank and decided to try it himself for a snack

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Fishermen	det
5	Fishermen	Fishermen	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 nets	nmod:poss
6	's	's	PART	_	5 Fishermen	case
7	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 seen	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 riverbank	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 riverbank	det
10	riverbank	riverbank	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 decided	cc
12	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 try	mark
14	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 decided	xcomp
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 try	obj
16	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 decided	obl:unmarked
17	for	for	ADP	_	19 snack	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 snack	det
19	snack	snack	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 decided	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past · perfect	He	the Fishermen's nets	the riverbank		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer net=Stimulus
2	decide	past	He not said here	himself = he		for a snack	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	try not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here	riverbank			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 2

He wanted to be like them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	nsubj
2	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	PART	_	6 them	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 them	cop
5	like	like	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wanted	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	He						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
2	is not said to happen	to-infinitive	He not said here					like them = they	tree rules

Option 3

He saw them and tried it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 saw	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 tried	cc
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tried	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	He	them = they					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	try	past	He not said here	it					vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He copied the Fishermen after watching them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 copied	nsubj
2	copied	copy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fishermen	det
4	Fishermen	fisherman	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 copied	obj
5	after	after	SCONJ	_	6 watching	mark
6	watching	watch	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 copied	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 watching	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	copy	past	He	the Fishermen					vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fisherman=Theme
2	watch	gerund	He not said here	Fishermen = fisherman					vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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