Test 11 · ★ · Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the K…

Did the donkey really poop out gold, or what?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do · To what, where: donkey, gold

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1091 «Fairy Tales, Donkeyskin, part 1: a dying Queen makes the King swear, the King goes mad, and the Princess flees to her godmother» 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	Did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 donkey	det
3	donkey	donkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
4	really	really	ADV	_	5 poop	advmod
5	poop	poop	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	7 gold	case
7	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Did	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 what	punct
9	or	or	CCONJ	_	10 what	cc
10	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Did	parataxis
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Did	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do	past		the donkey		gold			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

its straw was full of silver pennies

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 straw	nmod:poss
2	straw	straw	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 pennies	case
6	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pennies	compound
7	pennies	penny	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its straw					of silver pennies; full property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

its litter was full of golden coins that the King spent at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 litter	nmod:poss
2	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 coins	case
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coins	amod
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 spent	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 King	det
10	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 spent	nsubj
11	spent	spend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 coins	acl:relcl
12	at	at	ADP	_	13 once	case
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	11 spent	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its litter					of golden coins; full property	tree rules
2	spend	past	the King	golden coins					vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Asset

Option 3

its litter was filled with gold, which the woodcutter's wife counted every night

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 litter	nmod:poss
2	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 filled	aux:pass
4	filled	fill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	with	with	ADP	_	6 gold	case
6	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 filled	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 counted	punct
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 counted	obj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 woodcutter	det
10	woodcutter	woodcutter	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 wife	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 woodcutter	case
12	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counted	nsubj
13	counted	count	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 gold	acl:relcl
14	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	15 night	det
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 counted	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fill	past · passive		its litter				with gold	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with gold=Instrument
2	count	past	the woodcutter's wife	gold			night		vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

its litter was full of golden coins

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 litter	nmod:poss
2	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 full	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 full	cop
4	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 coins	case
6	golden	golden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 coins	amod
7	coins	coin	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 full	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	its litter					of golden coins; full property	tree rules

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