Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Jackdaw and the Doves: a jackdaw in wh…

wait the wolf was chillin with the sheep for ages then went in for the kill?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, wolf · What happens: wait, be, go in · To what, where: chillin

This is test 9 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 wolf	det
3	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 chillin	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 chillin	cop
5	chillin	chillin	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	8 sheep	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sheep	det
8	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 ages	case
10	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obl
11	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	12 went	advmod
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
13	in	in	ADV	_	12 went	advmod
14	for	for	ADP	_	16 kill	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 kill	det
16	kill	kill	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	obl
17	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here		for ages	with the sheep	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is a	past	the wolf	chillin			tree rules
3	go in	past	you not said here		then	for the kill	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for kill=Beneficiary

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

yep, the shepherd left

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 shepherd	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yep	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shepherd	acl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	participle		the shepherd not said here					vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

yep once the shepherd left them alone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 left	discourse
2	once	once	SCONJ	_	5 left	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 left	nsubj
5	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 left	obj
7	alone	alone	ADV	_	5 left	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	past	the shepherd	them = they				alone property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yep when the shepherd went away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yep	yep	INTJ	_	5 went	discourse
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 went	advmod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 shepherd	det
4	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	away	away	ADV	_	5 went	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go away	past	the shepherd					away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

nah the flock ran off first

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 ran	discourse
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 flock	det
3	flock	flock	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ran	nsubj
4	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	off	off	ADP	_	4 ran	compound:prt
6	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	4 ran	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	run off	past	the flock					first property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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