Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Fox and the Hedgehog: a hurt Fox refus…

What happens if the Hedgehog flicks them off, the Fox said?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Hedgehog, Fox · What happens: happen, flick off, say · To what, where: them · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 7 · ★ 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	2 happens	nsubj
2	happens	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	if	if	SCONJ	_	6 flicks	mark
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hedgehog	det
5	Hedgehog	Hedgehog	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 flicks	nsubj
6	flicks	flick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 happens	advcl
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 flicks	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	6 flicks	compound:prt
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 flicks	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 happens	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	happen	present			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flick off a condition, not said to happen	present	the Hedgehog	them = they	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Fox		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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 first flies will leave and a hungrier crowd will settle on him again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flies	det
2	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 flies	amod
3	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 leave	nsubj
4	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 leave	aux
5	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 settle	cc
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 crowd	det
8	hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 crowd	amod
9	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 settle	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 settle	aux
11	settle	settle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 leave	conj
12	on	on	ADP	_	13 him	case
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 settle	obl
14	again	again	ADV	_	11 settle	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	future	the first flies						vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	settle	future	a hungrier crowd				again	on him = he	vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on he=Topic

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Hungrier flies roll in

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 flies	amod
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 roll	nsubj
3	roll	roll	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	3 roll	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	roll in	present	Hungrier flies						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Hungrier flies from the nearby marsh will swarm over the Fox

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Hungrier	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	2 flies	amod
2	flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 swarm	nsubj
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 marsh	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 marsh	det
5	nearby	nearby	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 marsh	amod
6	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flies	nmod
7	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 swarm	aux
8	swarm	swarm	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	over	over	ADP	_	11 Fox	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Fox	det
11	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 swarm	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swarm	future	Hungrier flies from the nearby marsh					over the Fox	vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over fox=Location

Option 4

Thirsty bees will arrive

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 bees	amod
2	bees	bee	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 arrive	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 arrive	aux
4	arrive	arrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	arrive	future	Thirsty bees						vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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