Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Gnat and the Bull, part 24: a gnat, a…

real talk, why did the sheep wreck the shepherd's cloak?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: sheep · What happens: wreck · To what, where: cloak

This is test 8 · ★ 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	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 talk	amod
2	talk	talk	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 wreck	punct
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	8 wreck	advmod
5	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 wreck	aux
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 sheep	det
7	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 wreck	nsubj
8	wreck	wreck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 talk	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 shepherd	det
10	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 cloak	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 shepherd	case
12	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wreck	obj
13	?	?	PUNCT	_	2 talk	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · do-support	the sheep	the shepherd's cloak					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cloak=Patient

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

they chewed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chewed	nsubj
2	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chewed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past	they	it					vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient

Option 2

they tore it on the thorns

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	nsubj
2	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 tore	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 thorns	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 thorns	det
6	thorns	thorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 tore	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tore	past	they	it		the thorns			tree rules

Option 3

they chewed on the shoes

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 chewed	nsubj
2	chewed	chew	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 shoes	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 shoes	det
5	shoes	shoe	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 chewed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chew	past	they					on the shoes	vn chew-39.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent on shoe=Patient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

they ate acorns and frayed it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 ate	obj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 frayed	cc
5	frayed	fray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ate	conj
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 frayed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	they	acorns					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent acorn=Patient
2	fray	past	they not said here	it					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient

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