Test 3 · Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules

In a cartoon a donkey eats a whole cake and is fine. What is real?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: donkey · What happens: eat, be · To what, where: whole cake, cartoon

This is test 3 of lesson 145 «Shrek's Donkey: real donkeys and mules» of the biology 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

Sentence 1: In a cartoon a donkey eats a whole cake and is fine.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	In	in	ADP	_	3 cartoon	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 cartoon	det
3	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obl
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 donkey	det
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	nsubj
6	eats	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 cake	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 cake	amod
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 eats	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 fine	cc
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 fine	cop
12	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 eats	conj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 eats	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	a donkey	a whole cake		a cartoon			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient
2	is	present	a donkey not said here					fine 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.

Sentence 2: What is real?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 real	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 real	cop
3	real	real	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 real	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						real property	tree rules

The options

Option 1 · ✓ the right answer

Rich, sweet food is bad for donkeys and can make their hooves sore

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Rich	punct
3	sweet	sweet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 food	amod
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 bad	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 donkeys	case
8	donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 bad	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 make	cc
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 make	aux
11	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 bad	conj
12	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 hooves	nmod:poss
13	hooves	hoove	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 make	obj
14	sore	sore	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 make	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Rich sweet food					for donkeys; bad property	tree rules
2	make	can	Rich sweet food not said here	donkeys's hooves				sore property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset hoove=Product

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Donkeys can eat any food at all, cake or sweets, without any harm

The tree, 13 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 eat	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 eat	aux
3	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 food	det
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obj
6	at	at	ADP	_	7 all	case
7	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	5 food	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 cake	punct
9	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 food	conj
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 sweets	cc
11	sweets	sweet	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 food	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 harm	punct
13	without	without	ADP	_	15 harm	case
14	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	15 harm	det
15	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	can	Donkeys	any food and cake or sweets		all		without any harm	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient

Option 3

Cake is good for donkey teeth

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 good	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 good	cop
3	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 teeth	case
5	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 teeth	compound
6	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 good	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present	Cake					for donkey teeth; good property	tree rules

Option 4

Donkeys eat only cake at parties

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Donkeys	donkey	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	nsubj
2	eat	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	only	only	ADV	_	4 cake	advmod
4	cake	cake	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 eat	obj
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 parties	case
6	parties	party	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 eat	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	present	Donkeys	cake		parties			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cake=Patient

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