Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

wait so the jackdaw painted himself white, is that real?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, jackdaw · What happens: wait, paint, be · To what, where: jackdaw

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 398 «Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in white paint sneaks in among the doves, and a run of short fables follows» 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	wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	so	so	ADV	_	5 painted	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 jackdaw	det
4	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	nsubj
5	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 painted	obj
7	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 painted	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 real	punct
9	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 real	cop
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 real	mark
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 wait	advcl
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	paint	past	the jackdaw	jackdaw	white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
3	is	present	you not said here		real 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

nah he was a dove for real

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 dove	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dove	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dove	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 dove	det
5	dove	dove	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 real	case
7	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dove	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a dove				for real	tree rules

Option 2

yeah the jackdaw was painted white and fooled everyone there

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 painted	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 jackdaw	det
3	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 painted	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painted	aux:pass
5	painted	paint	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 painted	xcomp
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fooled	cc
8	fooled	fool	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 painted	conj
9	everyone	everyone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	8 fooled	obj
10	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 fooled	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past · passive		the jackdaw				white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
2	fool	past		everyone		there			vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everyone=Patient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah he was a jackdaw in paint

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 jackdaw	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 jackdaw	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 jackdaw	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 jackdaw	det
5	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	in	in	ADP	_	7 paint	case
7	paint	paint	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jackdaw	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	he	a jackdaw		paint			tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

yeah he painted himself white to fool the doves

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 painted	discourse
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 painted	nsubj
3	painted	paint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 painted	obj
5	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 painted	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fool	mark
7	fool	fool	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 painted	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 doves	det
9	doves	dove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 fool	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	paint	past	he	himself = he				white property	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Destination
2	fool	to-infinitive	he not said here	the doves					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dove=Patient

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