Test 8 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

the travellers were mad hot, weren't they?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: travellers · What happens: be

This is test 8 · ★ 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 travellers	det
2	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 hot	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	cop
4	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 hot	amod
5	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct
7	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 hot	conj
8	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 they	advmod
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 were	nsubj
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 hot	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the travellers					hot property	tree rules
2	be	past	travellers = traveller						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, the summer sun was wrecking them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 wrecking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sun	compound
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrecking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrecking	aux
7	wrecking	wreck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrecking	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wreck	past · progressive	the summer sun	them = they					vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient

Option 2

nah, they were cold because the winter wind was blowing hard across the valley

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 cold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cold	nsubj
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cold	cop
5	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	because	because	SCONJ	_	11 blowing	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 wind	det
8	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wind	compound
9	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blowing	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 blowing	aux
11	blowing	blow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 cold	advcl
12	hard	hard	ADV	Degree=Pos	11 blowing	advmod
13	across	across	ADP	_	15 valley	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 valley	det
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 blowing	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	they					cold property	tree rules
2	blow	past · progressive	the winter wind			the valley		hard property	vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

yeah, the summer sun was wrecking them and they had no water left to drink, bruv

The tree, 16 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	7 wrecking	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 wrecking	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sun	det
4	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 sun	compound
5	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 wrecking	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrecking	aux
7	wrecking	wreck	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 wrecking	obj
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 had	cc
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 had	nsubj
11	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wrecking	conj
12	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 had	obj
14	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 water	acl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 left	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 bruv	punct
18	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 water	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	wreck	past · progressive	the summer sun	them = they	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	have	past	they	no water and bruv	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient
3	leave	participle		no water and bruv not said here	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	drink	to-infinitive			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

nah, the breeze was cooling them

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 cooling	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 breeze	det
4	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 cooling	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 cooling	aux
6	cooling	cool	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 cooling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cool	past · progressive	the breeze	them = they					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient

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