Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

ngl the peacock was pure salty about the nightingale, what did juno say?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, peacock, juno · What happens: ngl, be, say · To what, where: nightingale · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 8 · ★ 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	ngl	ngl	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 peacock	det
3	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 salty	cop
5	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 salty	amod
6	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 ngl	ccomp
7	about	about	ADP	_	9 nightingale	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 nightingale	det
9	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 salty	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 say	punct
11	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	14 say	obj
12	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 say	aux
13	juno	juno	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 say	nsubj
14	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 nightingale	parataxis
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 ngl	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	ngl	imperative	you not said here			tree rules
2	is	past	the peacock		about the nightingale; salty property	tree rules
3	say speech: assert	past · do-support	juno	the nightingale		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic

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

you have beauty, but the peacock must be quiet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 have	nsubj
2	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 have	obj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 quiet	punct
5	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 quiet	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 peacock	det
7	peacock	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 quiet	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 quiet	aux
9	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 quiet	cop
10	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 have	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	present	you	beauty					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent beauty=Patient
2	is	must	the peacock					quiet property	tree rules

Option 2

sing for your own joy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	sing	sing	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	for	for	ADP	_	5 joy	case
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 joy	nmod:poss
4	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 joy	amod
5	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 sing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sing speech: express	imperative	you not said here					for your own joy	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for joy=Recipient
2	joy		your						nom joy «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

beauty is your gift, be happy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gift	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 gift	cop
3	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 gift	nmod:poss
4	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 happy	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gift	punct
6	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	7 happy	cop
7	happy	happy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	beauty	your gift					tree rules
2	is	infinitive	your gift					happy property	tree rules

Option 4

your song is your gift

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 song	nmod:poss
2	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gift	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gift	cop
4	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 gift	nmod:poss
5	gift	gift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	your song	your gift					tree rules
2	sing		your						nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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