Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

ngl the hound quit the chase, so what did the goatherd reckon?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, hound, goatherd · What happens: ngl, quit, reckon · To what, where: chase

This is test 5 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hound	det
3	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	nsubj
4	quit	quit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 ngl	ccomp
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 chase	det
6	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 quit	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 reckon	punct
8	so	so	ADV	_	13 reckon	advmod
9	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 reckon	obj
10	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 reckon	aux
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 goatherd	det
12	goatherd	goatherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 reckon	nsubj
13	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 ngl	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here		tree rules
2	quit	past	the hound	the chase	vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chase=Source
3	reckon	past · do-support	the goatherd		vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent what=Attribute

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 · ✓ the right answer

the little one is the quickest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quickest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quickest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 quickest	det
6	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	the little one					quick property	tree rules

Option 2

the little one is the quickest, and the big one is slow and lazy

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 one	det
2	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 one	amod
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 quickest	nsubj
4	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 quickest	cop
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 quickest	det
6	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 slow	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 slow	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 one	det
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 one	amod
11	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 slow	nsubj
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 slow	cop
13	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 quickest	parataxis
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 lazy	cc
15	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 slow	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	present	the little one	quick property	tree rules
2	is	present	the big one	slow property	tree rules
3	be		the big one not said here		tree rules

Option 3

the hare that ran the whole way round the field is the quickest runner of the two

The tree, 17 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 hare	det
2	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 runner	nsubj
3	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 hare	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 way	det
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 way	amod
7	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obj
8	round	round	ADP	_	10 field	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 field	det
10	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	obl
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 runner	cop
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 runner	det
13	quickest	quick	ADJ	Degree=Sup	14 runner	amod
14	runner	runner	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 two	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 two	det
17	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 runner	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run	past	the hare	the whole way		the field			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent way=Theme round field=Trajectory
2	is a	present	the hare	the quickest runner				of the two	tree rules

Option 4

the youngest is fastest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 youngest	det
2	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	root	root
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 fastest	cop
4	fastest	fast	ADJ	Degree=Sup	2 youngest	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						fast property	tree rules

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