Test 5 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

was the hen being a total numpty with those eggs?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · What happens: be · To what, where: hen, total numpty

This is test 5 · ★ 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	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 hen	cop
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 hen	det
3	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 numpty	csubj
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 numpty	cop
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 numpty	det
6	total	total	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 numpty	amod
7	numpty	numpty	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 eggs	case
9	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	10 eggs	det
10	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 numpty	nmod
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	7 numpty	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past		the hen					tree rules
2	is a	gerund		a total numpty				with that eggs	tree rules

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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, they were vipers, she should've known

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 vipers	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 vipers	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 vipers	cop
5	vipers	viper	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 vipers	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 've	nsubj
8	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 've	aux
9	've	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	5 vipers	acl:relcl
10	known	know	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 've	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	they	vipers					tree rules
2	know	participle	they not said here						vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

Option 2

nah, she was clever, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 clever	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 clever	cop
5	clever	clever	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 clever	punct
7	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 clever	discourse

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

Option 3

yeah, she was dumb

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 dumb	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 dumb	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dumb	cop
5	dumb	dumb	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

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

Option 4

yeah, she sat on them all winter

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sat	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	nsubj
4	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	on	on	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sat	obl
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	8 winter	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sat	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	she				winter	on them = they	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on they=Location

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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