Test 8 · ★ · Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old…

Is that the dude who fed the stray dog with the tasty stew?

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: dude · What happens: be, feed · To what, where: dude, stray dog

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1254 «Eastern Stories and Legends, Nur Mahomed, part 55: the old woman's foundling becomes a soldier, and a dog dies after a meal» 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	Is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	cop
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 dude	mark
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 dude	det
4	dude	dude	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 fed	nsubj
6	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dude	acl:relcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
8	stray	stray	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 dog	amod
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 stew	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 stew	det
12	tasty	tasty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 stew	amod
13	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fed	obl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 dude	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present		the dude					tree rules
2	feed	past	the dude		the stray dog			with the tasty stew	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

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 · ✓ the right answer

Yeah, and the dog keeled over dead

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 keeled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 keeled	punct
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 keeled	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 keeled	nsubj
6	keeled	keel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	over	over	ADV	_	8 dead	advmod
8	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keeled	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	keel over	participle	the dog					dead property	tree rules

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

Nah, that was another dog, and the one who ate the stew just fell asleep

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Nah	nah	INTJ	_	6 dog	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Nah	punct
3	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 dog	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 dog	cop
5	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	6 dog	det
6	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 one	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 one	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 one	det
10	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 dog	appos
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 one	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 stew	det
14	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 ate	obj
15	just	just	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 fell	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	past	that	another dog		tree rules
2	eat	past	the one	the stew		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stew=Patient
3	fall	past	another dog		asleep property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 3

Yeah, the stew was poisoned and the dog keeled over dead in the street

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 poisoned	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 poisoned	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 stew	det
4	stew	stew	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisoned	nsubj:pass
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 poisoned	aux:pass
6	poisoned	poison	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 dead	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 dog	det
9	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
10	keeled	keel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 dog	acl
11	over	over	ADV	_	12 dead	advmod
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 poisoned	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 street	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 street	det
15	street	street	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 poisoned	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	poison	past · passive		the stew		the street			vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
2	keel over	participle		the dog not said here					tree rules

Option 4

Yeah, the poor dog died quickly

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	6 died	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 died	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 dog	det
4	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 dog	amod
5	dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 died	nsubj
6	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	6 died	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the poor dog					quickly property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute

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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