Test 4 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea, part 27:…

Wait, the crow ate the snake and then died, is that the story?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, crow · What happens: wait, eat, die, be · To what, where: snake, story

This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 406 «Aesop's Fables, The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea, part 27: seven short fables, each with a 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 ate	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Wait	parataxis
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 snake	det
7	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 died	cc
9	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	10 died	advmod
10	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 story	punct
12	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 story	cop
13	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 story	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 story	det
15	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Wait	parataxis
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	eat	past	the crow	the snake		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snake=Patient
3	die	past	the crow not said here		then	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	is a	present		the story		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, the snake bit it first, so the crow got a mortal wound, mate

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 bit	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 bit	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 bit	nsubj
5	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 bit	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 bit	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 got	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 got	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crow	det
11	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	nsubj
12	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 bit	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 wound	det
14	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 wound	amod
15	wound	wound	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 got	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 mate	punct
17	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wound	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bite	past	the snake	it				first property	vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	get	past	the crow	a mortal wound and mate					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wound=Stimulus

Option 2

Nah, the crow ate it and lived, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 ate	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 crow	det
4	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	nsubj
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 ate	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 lived	cc
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 ate	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 mate	punct
10	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ate	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	the crow	it				mate vocative	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
2	live	past	the crow not said here						vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the snake got it first, so the crow died, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 got	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 got	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snake	det
4	snake	snake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 got	nsubj
5	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 got	obj
7	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 got	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 died	punct
9	so	so	ADV	_	12 died	advmod
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 crow	det
11	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	nsubj
12	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 got	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mate	punct
14	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 died	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	get	past	the snake	it				first property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
2	die	past	the crow					mate vocative	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

Option 4

Yeah, it died, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 died	nsubj
4	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 died	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 died	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	it					mate vocative	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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