Test 7 · ★ · Aesop's Fables, The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea, part 27:…

The snow smashed the olive but the fig was totally fine, innit?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: snow, fig · What happens: smash, be, innit · To what, where: olive

This is test 7 · ★ 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 snow	det
2	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smashed	nsubj
3	smashed	smash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 olive	det
5	olive	olive	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 smashed	obj
6	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 fine	cc
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fig	det
8	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fine	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	cop
10	totally	totally	ADV	_	11 fine	advmod
11	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 smashed	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 innit	punct
13	innit	innit	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	11 fine	parataxis
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 smashed	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	smash	past	the snow	the olive		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Theme
2	is	past	the fig		fine, totally property	tree rules
3	innit	infinitive				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

Nope, the fig got crushed

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	6 crushed	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fig	det
4	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 crushed	nsubj:pass
5	got	get	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 crushed	aux:pass
6	crushed	crush	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past · passive		the fig					vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, the bare fig had no leaves for the snow to sit on

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 fig	det
4	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 fig	amod
5	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	8 leaves	det
8	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 had	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	11 snow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 snow	det
11	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 leaves	nmod
12	to	to	PART	_	13 sit	mark
13	sit	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 had	xcomp
14	on	on	ADP	_	13 sit	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the bare fig	no leaves				for the snow	tree rules
2	sit on	to-infinitive	no leaves not said here						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3

Nope, the snow buried the fig just as badly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nope	nope	INTJ	_	5 buried	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nope	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 snow	det
4	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	nsubj
5	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 fig	det
7	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 buried	obj
8	just	just	ADV	_	10 badly	advmod
9	as	as	ADV	_	10 badly	advmod
10	badly	badly	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 buried	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bury	past	the snow	the fig				badly property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fig=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

Yeah, the fig had no leaves so snow slid off

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 had	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 fig	det
4	fig	fig	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 slid	advcl
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 leaves	det
7	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
8	so	so	ADV	_	10 slid	advmod
9	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 slid	nsubj
10	slid	slide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	off	off	ADP	_	10 slid	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the fig	no leaves					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
2	slide off	past	snow						vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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