Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…

deadass, why did Minerva love the olive more?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Minerva · What happens: love · To what, where: olive

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 403 «Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a camel, dogs, a jackdaw and a workman each get a short lesson» 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	deadass	deadass	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 love	vocative
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 deadass	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	6 love	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 love	aux
5	Minerva	Minerva	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 love	nsubj
6	love	love	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 olive	det
8	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 love	obj
9	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 love	advmod
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 love	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	love	past · do-support	Minerva	the olive				deadass vocative	vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer olive=Stimulus

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

it is very sweet

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sweet	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 sweet	cop
3	very	very	ADV	_	4 sweet	advmod
4	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					sweet property	tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it gives fruit

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	present	it	fruit					vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme

Option 3

it gives fruit that feeds people and oil that burns bright in every home

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gives	nsubj
2	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gives	obj
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 feeds	nsubj
5	feeds	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 fruit	acl:relcl
6	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 feeds	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 oil	cc
8	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 people	conj
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	10 burns	nsubj
10	burns	burn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 oil	acl:relcl
11	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 burns	xcomp
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 home	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 home	det
14	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 feeds	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	it	fruit			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
2	feed	present	fruit	people and oil	every home		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent people=Value in home=Location
3	burn	present	oil			bright property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4

it's tall

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tall	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 tall	cop
3	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	it					tall property	tree rules

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