Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…

no cap, the jackdaw waiting on out-of-season figs is so sus, what did the fox tell him?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 2 · right ✓ · Who acts: jackdaw, cap, fox · What happens: wait, be, tell · To what, where: season figs, jackdaw · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ 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	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 cap	det
2	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 sus	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 jackdaw	punct
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 jackdaw	det
5	jackdaw	jackdaw	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cap	appos
6	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 jackdaw	acl
7	on	on	ADP	_	13 figs	case
8	out	out	ADP	_	13 figs	case
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 out	punct
10	of	of	ADP	_	13 figs	case
11	-	-	PUNCT	_	10 of	punct
12	season	season	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 figs	compound
13	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 waiting	obl
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 sus	cop
15	so	so	ADV	_	16 sus	advmod
16	sus	suspect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 tell	punct
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 tell	obj
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 tell	aux
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fox	det
21	fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 tell	nsubj
22	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 sus	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 tell	iobj
24	?	?	PUNCT	_	16 sus	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	wait	gerund	the jackdaw not said here		season figs		vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fig=Location
2	is	present	no cap			suspect property	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	past · do-support	the fox	jackdaw			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient what=Topic

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

he lied

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 lied	nsubj
2	lied	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	lie	past	he						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

he was fooling himself

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 fooling	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fooling	aux
3	fooling	fool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 fooling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fool	past · progressive	he	himself = he					vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient

Option 3

he was wrong

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 wrong	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 wrong	cop
3	wrong	wrong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

he was waiting for nothing

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 waiting	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 waiting	aux
3	waiting	wait	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	5 nothing	case
5	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	3 waiting	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	past · progressive	he					for nothing	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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