Test 11 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals th…

so the eaglets were fluffy and ready to fly, yeah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: eaglets · What happens: be, fly

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 402 «Aesop's Fables, The Eagle and the Fox: the eagle steals the fox's cub, and the fox takes revenge with fire» 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	so	so	ADV	_	5 fluffy	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 eaglets	det
3	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 fluffy	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fluffy	cop
5	fluffy	fluffy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ready	cc
7	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fluffy	conj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 fly	mark
9	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 ready	xcomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 fluffy	punct
11	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 fluffy	discourse
12	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 fluffy	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	is	past	the eaglets	fluffy property	tree rules
2	be		the eaglets not said here		tree rules
3	fly	to-infinitive	the eaglets not said here		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 · ✓ the right answer

no, unfledged and helpless

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	3 unfledged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 unfledged	punct
3	unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 helpless	cc
5	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 unfledged	conj

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

no, still without feathers

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 feathers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 feathers	punct
3	still	still	ADV	_	5 feathers	advmod
4	without	without	ADP	_	5 feathers	case
5	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 3

no, they were still too small to have feathers and couldn't fly or hunt

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	7 small	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 small	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 small	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 small	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
6	too	too	ADV	_	7 small	advmod
7	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	to	to	PART	_	9 have	mark
9	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 small	advcl
10	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 have	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 fly	cc
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 fly	aux
13	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	14 fly	advmod
14	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 small	conj
15	or	or	CCONJ	_	16 hunt	cc
16	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 fly	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they		still	small property	tree rules
2	have	to-infinitive	they not said here	feathers			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feather=Patient
3	not fly	could	they not said here				vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hunt	infinitive	they not said here				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

no, they were unfledged and completely helpless in the nest

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	5 unfledged	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 no	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 unfledged	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 unfledged	aux:pass
5	unfledged	unfledg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 helpless	cc
7	completely	completely	ADV	_	8 helpless	advmod
8	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 unfledged	conj
9	in	in	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 unfledged	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	unfledg	past · passive		they		the nest			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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