Test 1 · ★ · Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fatt…

Yo, why didn't the Bad One just cook the kid straight away?

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: Bad One · What happens: not cook · To what, where: kid

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1210 «Indian Fairy Tales, Ball-Carrier, part 11: the boy is fattened up for a feast» 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	Yo	yo	INTJ	_	10 cook	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yo	punct
3	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	10 cook	advmod
4	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 cook	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 cook	advmod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 One	det
7	Bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 One	amod
8	One	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	nsubj
9	just	just	ADV	_	10 cook	advmod
10	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 kid	det
12	kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 cook	obj
13	straight	straight	ADV	_	14 away	advmod
14	away	away	ADV	_	10 cook	advmod
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	10 cook	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not cook	past · do-support	the Bad One	the kid				away property	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent kid=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

Cause he was too small

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 small	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 small	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 small	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 small	advmod
5	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					small property	tree rules

Option 2

Cause the water-demons had not arrived and the kettle was still cold

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 demons	det
3	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 demons	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	3 water	punct
5	demons	demon	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 arrived	nsubj:pass
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 arrived	aux
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	8 arrived	advmod
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Cause	ccomp
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 cold	cc
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 kettle	det
11	kettle	kettle	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 cold	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 cold	cop
13	still	still	ADV	_	14 cold	advmod
14	cold	cold	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Cause	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	cause	imperative	you not said here				tree rules
2	not arrive	past · perfect · passive		the water demons			tree rules
3	is	past	the kettle		still	cold property	tree rules

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

Cause he was too skinny and not yet fat enough to be worth eating

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 skinny	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skinny	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skinny	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 skinny	advmod
5	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fat	cc
7	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 fat	advmod
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	9 fat	advmod
9	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skinny	conj
10	enough	enough	ADV	_	9 fat	advmod
11	to	to	PART	_	13 worth	mark
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 worth	cop
13	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 fat	advcl
14	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 worth	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he		skinny property	tree rules
2	not be		he not said here	yet	enough property	tree rules
3	is	to-infinitive	he not said here		worth property	tree rules
4	eat	gerund	he not said here			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

Cause he was too skinny to be worth it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Cause	cause	SCONJ	_	5 skinny	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 skinny	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 skinny	cop
4	too	too	ADV	_	5 skinny	advmod
5	skinny	skinny	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	8 worth	mark
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 worth	cop
8	worth	worth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 skinny	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 worth	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	he					skinny property	tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive	he not said here					worth property	tree rules

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