Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

bro the thief brought meat to shut the dog up, did it work?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: bro thief, thief · What happens: bring, shut up, work · To what, where: meat, dog

This is test 12 · ★ 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	bro	bro	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 thief	compound
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 thief	det
3	thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	nsubj
4	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brought	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 shut	mark
7	shut	shut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brought	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shut	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	7 shut	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 work	punct
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 work	aux
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 work	nsubj
14	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 brought	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 brought	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	bring	past	the bro thief	meat	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent meat=Theme
2	shut up	to-infinitive	the bro thief not said here	the dog	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient
3	work	past · do-support	thief		vn employment-95.3 «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

nah the dog stayed watchful

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	the dog					watchful property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

yep the dog fell asleep

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 fell	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fell	nsubj
4	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the dog					asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

yep the dog ate the meat and fell asleep at the door

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meat	det
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fell	cc
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
9	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 fell	xcomp
10	at	at	ADP	_	12 door	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 door	det
12	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the dog	the meat					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	fall	past	the dog not said here			the door		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at door=Location

Option 4

nah the dog ate the meat but stayed watchful all night

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ate	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dog	det
3	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	nsubj
4	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 meat	det
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obj
7	but	but	CCONJ	_	8 stayed	cc
8	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 ate	conj
9	watchful	watchful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 stayed	xcomp
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 night	det
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ate	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the dog	the meat			night		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
2	stay	past	the dog not said here					watchful property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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