Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

So what did the Hedgehog offer to do for him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Hedgehog · What happens: offer, do

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 396 «Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refuses a kind Hedgehog's offer to shoo away his flies» 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	So	so	ADV	_	6 offer	advmod
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 offer	obj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 offer	aux
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hedgehog	det
5	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 offer	nsubj
6	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	to	to	PART	_	8 do	mark
8	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 offer	xcomp
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 do	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 offer	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	offer	past · do-support	the Hedgehog						tree rules
2	do not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Hedgehog not said here					for Hedgehog	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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

Shoo the flies away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Shoo	shoo	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Shoo	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	1 Shoo	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	shoo away	imperative	you not said here	the flies				away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme

Option 2

Lift the Fox out of the ravine and carry him all the way home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obj
4	out	out	ADP	_	7 ravine	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 ravine	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ravine	det
7	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 carry	cc
9	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Lift	conj
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 carry	obj
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 way	det:predet
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 way	det
13	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obl:unmarked
14	home	home	ADV	_	9 carry	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lift	imperative	you not said here	the Fox		the ravine			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent fox=Theme out ravine=Destination
2	carry	infinitive	you not said here	Fox				all way obl:unmarked; home property	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Bring some fresh water

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	4 water	det
3	fresh	fresh	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 water	amod
4	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Bring	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bring	imperative	you not said here	some fresh water					vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme

Option 4

Chase the flies off with a stick and then tend his wounds carefully

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Chase	chase	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 Chase	obj
4	off	off	ADP	_	1 Chase	compound:prt
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 stick	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stick	det
7	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Chase	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 tend	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 tend	advmod
10	tend	tend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Chase	conj
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 wounds	nmod:poss
12	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 tend	obj
13	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	10 tend	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	chase off	imperative	you not said here	the flies		with a stick	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fly=Theme
2	tend	present	you not said here	his wounds	then	carefully property	vn caring-75.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme
3	wound		his = he				nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent

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