Test 9 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Ass and His Driver: a bolting ass is h…

so the plane-tree went off at them, didn't it?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: plane tree, tree · What happens: go off, not do

This is test 9 · ★ 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	so	so	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 tree	det
3	plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tree	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 plane	punct
5	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	off	off	ADP	_	6 went	compound:prt
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 them	case
9	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 did	punct
11	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
12	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	11 did	advmod
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 did	nsubj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go off	past	the plane tree					at them = they	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at they=Location
2	not do	past	tree						vn act-114-1 «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, it gave them shade for free

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 free	case
8	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	it	shade	them = they			for free	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shade=Theme for free=Asset

Option 2

nah, it gave them shade and fruit, and they were rude to it anyway, lol

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 fruit	cc
8	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 shade	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 rude	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 rude	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rude	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 rude	cop
13	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 gave	conj
14	to	to	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 rude	obl
16	anyway	anyway	ADV	_	13 rude	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 gave	punct
18	lol	lol	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	it	shade and fruit	them = they				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient shade=Theme
2	is	past	shade		fruit			anyway, rude property	tree rules

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

yeah, it called them ungrateful fellows

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	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellows	amod
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	xcomp

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

Option 4

yeah, it called them ungrateful fellows and then dropped a branch on their heads, bruv

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 called	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yeah	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut 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	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 called	obj
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fellows	amod
7	fellows	fellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 called	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 dropped	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 dropped	advmod
10	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 called	conj
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 branch	det
12	branch	branch	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 dropped	obj
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 heads	case
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 heads	nmod:poss
15	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 dropped	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bruv	punct
17	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heads	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	call	past	it	them = they					vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme fellow=Result
2	drop	past		a branch		fellows's heads and bruv	then		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme on head=Destination

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