Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Image of Mercury and the Carpenter: a…

the oaks were moaning to jupiter, weren't they? about what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: oaks · What happens: moan, not be · To what, where: jupiter, oaks

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 oaks	det
2	oaks	oak	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 moaning	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 moaning	aux
4	moaning	moan	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 jupiter	case
6	jupiter	jupiter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 moaning	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 moaning	punct
8	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 they	cop
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 they	advmod
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 they	punct
12	about	about	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 moaning	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 moaning	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	moan	past · progressive	the oaks		jupiter				vn complain-37.8 «NP V PP.topic PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to jupiter=Recipient about what=Topic
2	not is a	past		oaks = oak					tree rules

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 woodsman's chopping

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodsman	det
2	woodsman	woodsman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 chopping	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woodsman	case
4	chopping	chopping	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

the fire

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 fire	det
2	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

the axe chopping them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 axe	det
2	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	chopping	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 axe	acl
4	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chopping	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop	gerund	the axe not said here	them = they					vn carve-21.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 4

the woodcutter's axe chopping them down one by one in the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 woodcutter	det
2	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 axe	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 woodcutter	case
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	chopping	chop	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 axe	acl
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 chopping	obj
7	down	down	ADP	_	5 chopping	compound:prt
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 chopping	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 one	case
10	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 one	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 forest	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 forest	det
13	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 one	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chop down	gerund	the woodcutter's axe not said here	them = they					vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP ADJP»: agent=Agent they=Patient one=Result

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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