Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

wait, the cottager's hen laid gold eggs, then what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, hen · What happens: wait, lay · To what, where: gold eggs

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 395 «Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a poor carpenter smashes his idol and gets gold» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 laid	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cottager	det
4	cottager	cottager	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 hen	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 cottager	case
6	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 laid	nsubj
7	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	conj
8	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 eggs	compound
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 laid	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 what	punct
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 what	advmod
12	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 laid	parataxis
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lay	past	the cottager's hen	gold eggs					vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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

they lost the gold

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	2 lost	nsubj
2	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 gold	det
4	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lost	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lose	past	they	the gold					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gold=Eventuality

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

they kept the hen and sold the golden eggs for a bag of coins at market

The tree, 16 words

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	2 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 hen	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 sold	cc
6	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 eggs	det
8	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 eggs	amod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 sold	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 bag	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 bag	det
12	bag	bag	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 coins	case
14	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 bag	nmod
15	at	at	ADP	_	16 market	case
16	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	they	the hen					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Theme
2	sell	past	they not said here	the golden eggs		market		for a bag of coins	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent egg=Theme for bag=Asset

Option 3

they slaughtered it for nothing

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	2 slaughtered	nsubj
2	slaughtered	slaughter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 slaughtered	obj
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	2 slaughtered	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	slaughter	past	they	it				for nothing	vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they killed it and got nothing

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	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 got	cc
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 got	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	kill	past	they	it					vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	get	past	they not said here	nothing					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nothing=Stimulus

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