Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

that spendthrift sold his only cloak for a swallow, real talk?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: spendthrift · What happens: sell · To what, where: only cloak

This is test 7 · ★ 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	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 spendthrift	det
2	spendthrift	spendthrift	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	nsubj
3	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 cloak	nmod:poss
5	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 cloak	amod
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 swallow	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 swallow	det
9	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sold	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 talk	punct
11	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 talk	amod
12	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 swallow	conj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 sold	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	that spendthrift	spendthrift's only cloak				for a swallow and real talk	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme for swallow=Asset

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

Nah, he thought winter had ended

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ended	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 ended	aux
7	ended	end	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 thought	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	end	past · perfect · passive		winter					vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: subject=Eventuality

Option 2

Yeah, he needed cash for food

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 needed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 needed	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 needed	nsubj
4	needed	need	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	cash	cash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 food	case
7	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 needed	obl

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

Option 3

Nah, he was just dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dumb	cop
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 dumb	advmod
6	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he thought summer had shown up early

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 thought	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thought	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 thought	nsubj
4	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 shown	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 shown	aux
7	shown	show	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 thought	ccomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 shown	compound:prt
9	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	7 shown	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past	he						vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	show up	past · perfect	summer					early property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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