Test 1 · ★ · Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox trick…

So the farmer just binned his horse cos he was old, fr?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: farmer · What happens: bin, be · To what, where: horse

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 770 «Household Tales, The Fox and the Horse: a clever fox tricks a proud lion» 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	_	5 binned	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 farmer	det
3	farmer	farmer	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 binned	nsubj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 binned	advmod
5	binned	bin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 binned	obj
8	cos	cos	SCONJ	_	11 old	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 old	nsubj
10	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 old	cop
11	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 binned	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fr	punct
13	fr	fr	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 old	conj
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 binned	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bin	past	the farmer	farmer's horse					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent horse=Theme
2	is	past	farmer					old property	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

Yeah, he was lazy

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	5 lazy	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lazy	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lazy	cop
5	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					lazy property	tree rules

Option 2

Nah, he was fine

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	5 fine	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 fine	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 fine	cop
5	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					fine property	tree rules

Option 3

Yeah, he sold him to a man

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 sold	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 sold	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	nsubj
4	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 sold	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sold	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sell	past	he	him = he	a man				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to man=Recipient

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, he couldn't work no more

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 work	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yeah	punct
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 work	nsubj
4	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 work	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 work	advmod
6	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	no	no	ADV	_	8 more	advmod
8	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 work	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not work	could	he	more					vn knead-26.5 «NP V NP.material»: agent=Agent more=Material

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