Test 12 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a co…

is the country mouse like a gamer or a baller?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · What happens: be · To what, where: country mouse

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 400 «Aesop's Fables, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse: a country mouse visits his grand city friend, gets a scare, and goes home» 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	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 mouse	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 mouse	det
3	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouse	compound
4	mouse	mouse	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	like	like	ADP	_	7 gamer	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 gamer	det
7	gamer	gamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mouse	nmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 baller	cc
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 baller	det
10	baller	baller	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 gamer	conj
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 mouse	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the country mouse				like a gamer or a baller	tree rules

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

he's chill with simple roots and doesn't need fancy stuff at all

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chill	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chill	cop
3	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 roots	case
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roots	amod
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chill	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 need	cc
8	does	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 need	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 need	advmod
10	need	need	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chill	conj
11	fancy	fancy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 stuff	amod
12	stuff	stuff	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 need	obj
13	at	at	ADP	_	14 all	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 need	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					with simple roots; chill property	tree rules
2	not need	present · do-support	he not said here	fancy stuff		all			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot stuff=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

he's chill with simple roots

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 chill	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 chill	cop
3	chill	chill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 roots	case
5	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 roots	amod
6	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 chill	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	he					with simple roots; chill property	tree rules

Option 3

he's a baller with big food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 baller	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 baller	cop
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 baller	det
4	baller	baller	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 food	case
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 food	amod
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 baller	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a baller				with big food	tree rules

Option 4

he's kinda a gamer, yeah

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 gamer	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 gamer	cop
3	kinda	kinda	ADV	_	5 gamer	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 gamer	det
5	gamer	gamer	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 gamer	punct
7	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 gamer	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	he	a gamer				kinda property	tree rules

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