Test 3 · ★ · Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds…

wait the birds just ate everything? like every crumb?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: wait, eat · To what, where: birds, everything

This is test 3 · ★ of lesson 1088 «Perrault's Tales, Little Thumb, part 13: lost again, birds eat the bread, a storm in the night» 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	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 wait	obj
4	just	just	ADV	_	5 ate	advmod
5	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 wait	advcl
6	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	5 ate	obj
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct
8	like	like	ADP	_	10 crumb	case
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 crumb	det
10	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 wait	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here	the birds				like every crumb	tree rules
2	eat	past	you not said here	everything					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Patient

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

all of it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	root	root
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 it	case
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 all	nmod

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

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

every single bit, no cap

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	3 bit	det
2	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 bit	amod
3	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 cap	punct
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 cap	det
6	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 bit	appos

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

Option 3

every crumb was totally gone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 crumb	det
2	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 gone	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 gone	cop
4	totally	totally	ADV	_	5 gone	advmod
5	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	every crumb					go, totally property	tree rules

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

they ate the whole loaf up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ate	nsubj
2	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 loaf	det
4	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 loaf	amod
5	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ate	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	2 ate	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat up	past	they	the whole loaf					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loaf=Patient

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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