Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

Why was the Fox so chill about the flies?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Fox · What happens: be

This is test 6 · ★ 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Fox	det
4	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 chill	advmod
6	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Fox	amod
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 flies	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 flies	det
9	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 chill	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Fox					why property	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

They had already drunk so much blood that they could not even fly

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	4 drunk	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drunk	aux
3	already	already	ADV	_	4 drunk	advmod
4	drunk	drink	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	so	so	ADV	_	6 much	advmod
6	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 blood	amod
7	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 drunk	obj
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 fly	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 fly	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 fly	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 fly	advmod
12	even	even	ADV	_	13 fly	advmod
13	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 drunk	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past · perfect · passive		They					tree rules
2	not fly	could	they						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were stuffed with blood

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	3 stuffed	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stuffed	aux:pass
3	stuffed	stuff	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 blood	case
5	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stuffed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stuff	past · passive		They				with blood	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with blood=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

They were tired from flying

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	3 tired	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tired	cop
3	tired	tired	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	from	from	SCONJ	_	5 flying	mark
5	flying	fly	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 tired	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					tired property	tree rules
2	fly	gerund	They not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

They were hungry

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	3 hungry	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hungry	cop
3	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	They					hungry property	tree rules

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