Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

my guy got salty about his shadow, how big did he think he was?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: guy · What happens: get, think, be, shadow · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 401 «Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a stranger bird learns that the cocks fight each other too» 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	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 guy	nmod:poss
2	guy	guy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	nsubj
3	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	salty	salty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 got	xcomp
5	about	about	ADP	_	7 shadow	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 shadow	nmod:poss
7	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 got	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 think	punct
9	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	10 big	advmod
10	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 think	advmod
11	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	aux
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 think	nsubj
13	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 shadow	acl:relcl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 was	nsubj
15	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 think	ccomp
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 got	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	get	past	my guy	about guy's shadow; salty property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
2	think speech: other	past · do-support	guy		vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	be	past	guy		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	shadow		guy		nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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

Tall enough to rule the forest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Tall	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 rule	mark
4	rule	rule	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tall	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 rule	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	rule	to-infinitive		the forest					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent forest=Theme

Option 2

Strong enough to beat the lion

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Strong	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 beat	mark
4	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Strong	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 lion	det
6	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 beat	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	beat	to-infinitive		the lion					vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=Theme

Option 3

Big enough to scare birds

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Big	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	4 scare	mark
4	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Big	advcl
5	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 scare	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	scare	to-infinitive		birds					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus bird=Experiencer

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Big enough to be king of all beasts

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Big	advmod
3	to	to	PART	_	5 king	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 king	cop
5	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Big	advcl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 beasts	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 beasts	det
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 king	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	to-infinitive		king				of all beasts	tree rules

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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