Test 3 · ★ · Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32…

Mate, who actually cooked the grub on that island, the servants or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: cook · To what, where: grub

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1064 «Gods and Fighting Men, the tale of Conn and Segda, part 32: Conn lands on a magic island, asks for the queen's son, and the boy is condemned to die» 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	Mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	compound
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 cooked	nsubj
4	actually	actually	ADV	_	5 cooked	advmod
5	cooked	cook	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 grub	det
7	grub	grub	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 island	case
9	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 island	det
10	island	island	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cooked	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 servants	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 servants	det
13	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 island	appos
14	or	or	CCONJ	_	15 what	cc
15	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 servants	conj
16	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 cooked	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cook	past		the grub				on that island; actually property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent grub=Patient on island=Instrument

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 servants, obviously

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 servants	punct
4	obviously	obviously	ADV	_	2 servants	advmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

The servants did it, innit, in the kitchen

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 servants	det
2	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 did	nsubj
3	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 did	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 innit	punct
6	innit	innit	INTJ	_	3 did	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 kitchen	punct
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 kitchen	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 kitchen	det
10	kitchen	kitchen	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 did	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past	the servants	it		the kitchen			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality

Option 3

Some cooks in the back, prob the servants

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 cooks	det
2	cooks	cook	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prob	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 back	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 back	det
5	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 cooks	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 prob	punct
7	prob	prob	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 servants	det
9	servants	servant	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 prob	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	prob	infinitive	some cooks in the back	the servants					tree rules

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Nobody, the food just turned up with no hands

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nobody	nobody	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	6 turned	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 food	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 food	det
4	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Nobody	conj
5	just	just	ADV	_	6 turned	advmod
6	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 turned	compound:prt
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 hands	case
9	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	10 hands	det
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 turned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	turn up	past	Nobody					with no hands	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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