Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

yo the boy drowning wanted the traveller to help first right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: boy, traveller · What happens: drown, want, help · To what, where: traveller

This is test 7 · ★ 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	yo	yo	INTJ	_	5 wanted	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 boy	det
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	nsubj
4	drowning	drown	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 boy	acl
5	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 traveller	det
7	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 wanted	obj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 help	mark
9	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 wanted	xcomp
10	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	9 help	advmod
11	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 help	xcomp
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 wanted	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	drown	gerund	the boy not said here			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	want	past	the boy	the traveller		tree rules
3	help not said to happen	to-infinitive	the traveller not said here		first, right property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: 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

yeah the traveller helped only after he scolded him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 helped	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 traveller	det
3	traveller	traveller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 helped	nsubj
4	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	only	only	ADV	_	4 helped	advmod
6	after	after	SCONJ	_	8 scolded	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scolded	nsubj
8	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 helped	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scolded	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	past	the traveller						vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	scold	past	traveller	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2

yeah, scold him first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 scold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scold	obj
5	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 scold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	imperative	you not said here	him = he				first property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah help first, scold later

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	2 help	discourse
2	help	help	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	2 help	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 scold	punct
5	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 help	conj
6	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 scold	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
2	scold	infinitive	you not said here					late property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4

yeah, scold first then help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	3 scold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	scold	scold	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	3 scold	advmod
5	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 help	advmod
6	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scold	advcl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scold	imperative	you not said here					first property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	help	infinitive	you not said here				then		vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent

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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