Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gamecocks and the Partridge: a strange…

the crow broke his promise twice, did mercury cancel him?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: crow, mercury · What happens: break, cancel, promise · To what, where: promise, crow

This is test 8 · ★ 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 crow	det
2	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	nsubj
3	broke	break	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	5 promise	nmod:poss
5	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 broke	obj
6	twice	twice	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	3 broke	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 cancel	punct
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cancel	aux
9	mercury	mercury	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cancel	nsubj
10	cancel	cancel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 broke	parataxis
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 cancel	obj
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 broke	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	break	past	the crow	crow's promise	twice property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer promise=Patient
2	cancel	past · do-support	mercury	crow		tree rules
3	promise		crow			nom promise «communication 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

Nope, Mercury forgave him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 forgave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 forgave	nsubj
4	forgave	forgive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 forgave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	forgive	past	Mercury	him = he					vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yep, he said he could not trust him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 trust	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 trust	advmod
8	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not trust	could	he	him = he					vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 3

Yep, Mercury said he could not trust him ever again

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 trust	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 trust	advmod
8	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	obj
10	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	8 trust	advmod
11	again	again	ADV	_	8 trust	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Mercury						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not trust	could	Mercury	him = he			ever; again		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4

Yep, he said he could not trust him after two lies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yep	yep	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yep	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 trust	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 trust	advmod
8	trust	trust	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 trust	obj
10	after	after	ADP	_	12 lies	case
11	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 lies	nummod
12	lies	lie	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 trust	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	he						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not trust	could	he	him = he			after two lies		vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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