Test 6 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

did the swallow give her a proper telling off?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: swallow · What happens: give, tell off · To what, where: her

This is test 6 · ★ 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	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 give	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 swallow	det
3	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 give	nsubj
4	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 give	iobj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 telling	det
7	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 telling	amod
8	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 give	advcl
9	off	off	ADP	_	8 telling	compound:prt
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 give	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · do-support	the swallow		her = she				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
2	tell off speech: assert	gerund	the swallow not said here						vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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 nothing at all but just sat on the branch and stared at her for ages

The tree, 18 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	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	4 said	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 nothing	nmod
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 sat	cc
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 sat	advmod
10	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 branch	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 branch	det
13	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sat	obl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 stared	cc
15	stared	stare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 said	conj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 her	case
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 stared	obl
18	for	for	ADP	_	19 ages	case
19	ages	age	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 stared	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	she	nothing	all			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic
2	sit	past	she not said here		the branch			vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
3	stare	past	she not said here			for ages	at her = she	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at she=Theme

Option 2

yeah, she called her a silly creature and then flew off to tell the farmer, bruv

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 flew	cc
10	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	11 flew	advmod
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 creature	conj
12	off	off	ADP	_	11 flew	compound:prt
13	to	to	PART	_	14 tell	mark
14	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 flew	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 farmer	det
16	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 tell	obj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 creature	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	when	roles by
1	call	past	she	her = she		vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	fly off	past	she not said here		then	tree rules
3	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	she not said here	the farmer		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, she called her a silly creature

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 called	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	nsubj
4	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 creature	det
7	silly	silly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 creature	amod
8	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 called	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	she		her = she				vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient

Option 4

nah, she just flew off quietly, lol

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 flew	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 flew	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 flew	compound:prt
7	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct
9	lol	lol	INTJ	_	5 flew	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly off	past	she					quietly property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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