Test 1 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: qui…

Mate, why'd the statue man reckon he needed to flog Mercury?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: statue man, man · What happens: reckon, need, flog · To what, where: Mate, Mercury

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 399 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Three Bulls, part 20: quick fables of tricks, greed and getting your comeuppance» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	obl
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 reckon	advmod
4	'd	'd	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 man	det
6	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	compound
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 reckon	nsubj
8	reckon	reckon	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 needed	nsubj
10	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 reckon	ccomp
11	to	to	PART	_	12 flog	mark
12	flog	flog	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 needed	xcomp
13	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 flog	obj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	8 reckon	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	reckon	infinitive	the statue man	Mate	vn consider-29.9-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	need	past	man		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	flog not said to happen	to-infinitive	man not said here	Mercury	vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mercury=Patient

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

Cos he wanted a new van

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wanted	nsubj
3	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 van	det
5	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 van	amod
6	van	van	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 wanted	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	want	past	Cos	a new van					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot van=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Cos he needed cash right now

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	nsubj
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 needed	nsubj
3	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 needed	obj
5	right	right	ADV	_	6 now	advmod
6	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 needed	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	need	past	Cos	cash			now		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot cash=Theme

Option 3

Cos he was bored

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	4 bored	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 bored	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 bored	cop
4	bored	bored	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Cos the buyer was rich

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cos	cos	SCONJ	_	3 buyer	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 buyer	det
3	buyer	buyer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rich	obl
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 rich	cop
5	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past						cos the buyer; rich property	tree rules

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