Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house…

the serpent poisoned the horn, wicked! who grabbed it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: serpent, horn · What happens: poison, grab · To what, where: horn

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 397 «Aesop's Fables, The Wizard, part 18: a wizard's own house is robbed while he reads other people's fortunes» 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 serpent	det
2	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisoned	nsubj
3	poisoned	poison	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 horn	det
5	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 poisoned	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct
7	wicked	wicked	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 horn	amod
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 wicked	punct
9	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 grabbed	nsubj
10	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 horn	acl:relcl
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 grabbed	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 poisoned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past	the serpent	the horn					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Patient
2	grab	past	the horn	horn					vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

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 eagle, with his talons

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 talons	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 talons	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 talons	nmod:poss
6	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eagle	conj

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

Option 2

the eagle, who swooped down and grabbed it up in his talons before anyone else could reach

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 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 swooped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 swooped	punct
4	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 swooped	nsubj
5	swooped	swoop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	down	down	ADP	_	5 swooped	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 grabbed	cc
8	grabbed	grab	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 swooped	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 grabbed	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 grabbed	compound:prt
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 talons	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 talons	nmod:poss
13	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 grabbed	obl
14	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 reach	mark
15	anyone	anyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	18 reach	nsubj
16	else	else	ADV	_	15 anyone	advmod
17	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reach	aux
18	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swooped	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	swoop down	past	the eagle			tree rules
2	grab up	past	the eagle not said here	eagle	his talons	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	reach	could	anyone			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

the countryman's wife, who had watched the whole scene from the fields with her basket

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 countryman	det
2	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wife	nmod:poss
3	's	's	PART	_	2 countryman	case
4	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 watched	punct
6	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 watched	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 watched	aux
8	watched	watch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 wife	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 scene	det
10	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 scene	amod
11	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	obj
12	from	from	ADP	_	14 fields	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 fields	det
14	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 watched	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 basket	case
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 basket	nmod:poss
17	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 watched	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	watch	past · perfect	the countryman's wife	the whole scene		the fields		with wife's basket	vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme

Option 4

the eagle, with his beak

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 eagle	det
2	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 eagle	punct
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 beak	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 beak	nmod:poss
6	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eagle	nmod

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

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