Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

the mum said she'd chuck her kid out the window, right?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: mum · What happens: say, chuck out · To what, where: window, kid · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 404 «Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is hauled back by the tail, and the fables that follow each end with a small 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 mum	det
2	mum	mum	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chuck	nsubj
5	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 chuck	aux
6	chuck	chuck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 said	ccomp
7	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 kid	nmod:poss
8	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
9	out	out	ADP	_	6 chuck	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 window	det
11	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 chuck	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 chuck	punct
13	right	right	INTJ	_	3 said	discourse
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the mum						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	chuck out	would	mum	the window	mum's kid				vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent kid=Destination window=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

nah, she said she'd call help

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 call	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 call	aux
7	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 call	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	call	would	she	help					vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent help=Recipient

Option 2

nah, she said she'd just scream at the wolf to scare him off, lol

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 scream	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 scream	aux
7	just	just	ADV	_	8 scream	advmod
8	scream	scream	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
9	at	at	ADP	_	11 wolf	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 wolf	det
11	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 scream	obl
12	to	to	PART	_	13 scare	mark
13	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 scream	advcl
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 scare	obj
15	off	off	ADP	_	13 scare	compound:prt
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
17	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	scream speech: express	would	she		the wolf	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at wolf=Location
3	scare off	to-infinitive	she not said here	him = he		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer

Option 3

yeah, she said she'd feed him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 said	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 said	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 said	nsubj
4	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	nsubj
6	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 feed	aux
7	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 said	ccomp
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 feed	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	feed	would	she		him = he				vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, that's what she said, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 what	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 what	nsubj
4	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 what	cop
5	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	root	root
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 what	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 said	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 what	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	that						tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past	she						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent

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