Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…

fam, the workman tried to get extra axes by lying, so what did Mercury do?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: workman, Mercury · What happens: try, get, lie, do · To what, where: fam, extra axes

This is test 5 · ★ 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	fam	fam	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	obl:unmarked
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 fam	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 workman	det
4	workman	workman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 get	mark
7	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	xcomp
8	extra	extra	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 axes	amod
9	axes	ax	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 get	obj
10	by	by	SCONJ	_	11 lying	mark
11	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 get	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	17 do	advmod
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	Mercury	Mercury	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 tried	conj
18	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	try	past	the workman	fam	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	get not said to happen	to-infinitive	the workman not said here	extra axes	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ax=Stimulus
3	lie	gerund	the workman not said here		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	do	past · do-support	Mercury		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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 gave him the axe

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 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	iobj
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 axe	det
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	he	the axe	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient axe=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

he kept the axe and refused it

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 axe	det
4	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 refused	cc
6	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 refused	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	the axe					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	refuse	past	he not said here	axe					vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

he sent him away with a scolding

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 sent	nsubj
2	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 sent	obj
4	away	away	ADV	_	2 sent	advmod
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 scolding	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 scolding	det
7	scolding	scolding	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send away	past	he	him = he				with a scolding; away property	vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

he kept the golden axe and refused

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 kept	nsubj
2	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 axe	det
4	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 axe	amod
5	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 kept	obj
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 refused	cc
7	refused	refuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 kept	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keep	past	he	the golden axe					vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
2	refuse	past	he not said here						vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

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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