Test 10 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pull…

Did the shepherd get to go home or nah?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: shepherd · What happens: get, go · To what, where: shepherd

This is test 10 · ★ of lesson 405 «Aesop's Fables, The Lion and the Shepherd: a Shepherd pulls a thorn from a Lion's paw, and the Lion later spares him» 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=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 shepherd	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 shepherd	det
3	shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 get	obl
4	get	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 go	mark
6	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 get	xcomp
7	home	home	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	9 nah	cc
9	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 get	discourse
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 get	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	present		the shepherd					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	go	to-infinitive	the shepherd not said here					home property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «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 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, he stayed jailed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	jailed	jail	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 stayed	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he						tree rules
2	jail	participle	he not said here						vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2

Yeah, he went back to his farm

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 went	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 went	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 went	nsubj
4	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	back	back	ADV	_	4 went	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 farm	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 farm	nmod:poss
8	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go back	past	he					to his farm result	vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to farm=Result

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he got sent back to his mates

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 sent	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sent	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 sent	nsubj
4	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sent	aux:pass
5	sent	send	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	back	back	ADV	_	5 sent	advmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 mates	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mates	nmod:poss
9	mates	mate	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 sent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	send back	past · passive		he		his mates			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to mate=Destination

Option 4

Nope, he stayed in the prison

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	4 stayed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stayed	nsubj
4	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 prison	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prison	det
7	prison	prison	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stayed	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	stay	past	he			the prison			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prison=Location

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