Test 4 · ★ · Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part…
Lol, what did the brothers do to Jack when he ate their bread and cheese?
Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: brothers, he · What happens: do, jack, eat · To what, where: bread
This is test 4 · ★ of lesson 1166 «Olive Fairy Book, The Three Treasures of the Giants, part 1: three brothers find a castle of money, and Jack gets the last word» 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 | Lol | lol | INTJ | _ | 4 did | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 did | punct |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 did | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Jack | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 brothers | det |
| 6 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Jack | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 Jack | aux |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Jack | case |
| 9 | Jack | jack | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 ate | advmod |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 ate | nsubj |
| 12 | ate | eat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Jack | advcl |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 bread | nmod:poss |
| 14 | bread | bread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 ate | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 cheese | cc |
| 16 | cheese | cheese | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 bread | conj |
| 17 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 9 Jack | punct |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | past | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | jack | present · do-support | the brothers | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | eat | past | he | brothers's bread and cheese | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=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 · ← Mova's choice
they fed him
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 fed | nsubj |
| 2 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 fed | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past | they | him = he | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
Option 2
they kicked him out
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 kicked | nsubj |
| 2 | kicked | kick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 kicked | obj |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 2 kicked | compound:prt |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick out | past | they | him = he | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
Option 3 · ✓ the right answer
they battered him
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 battered | nsubj |
| 2 | battered | batter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 battered | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | batter | past | they | him = he | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Instrument |
Option 4
they left him
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 left | nsubj |
| 2 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 left | obj |
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | they | him = he | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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