Test 8 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the younges…

Mad, what did the giant nod off in?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · What happens: do off · To what, where: giant nod

This is test 8 · ★ of lesson 1292 «Celtic Fairy Tales, The Three Crowns, part 17: the youngest prince goes down the well and the pair escape the giants» 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	Mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 what	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	1 Mad	obl
4	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 what	acl:relcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 nod	det
6	giant	giant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 nod	amod
7	nod	nod	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 did	obj
8	off	off	ADP	_	4 did	compound:prt
9	in	in	ADP	_	4 did	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Mad	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	do off	past		the giant nod					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nod=Eventuality

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

His supper plate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 plate	nmod:poss
2	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 plate	compound
3	plate	plate	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 2

A huge wooden dish of meat and bread he had been eating from all evening

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 dish	det
2	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dish	amod
3	wooden	wooden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dish	amod
4	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eating	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 meat	case
6	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dish	nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 bread	cc
8	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 meat	conj
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eating	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 eating	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 eating	aux
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 evening	case
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 evening	det
15	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 eating	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past · perfect · progressive	a huge wooden dish of meat and bread				evening		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

His dinner dish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 dish	nmod:poss
2	dinner	dinner	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dish	compound
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

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

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

The big dish of meat that had been set before him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 dish	det
2	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 dish	amod
3	dish	dish	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 meat	case
5	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 dish	nmod
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 set	nsubj:pass
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 set	aux
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 set	aux:pass
9	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 dish	acl:relcl
10	before	before	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 set	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	set	past · perfect · passive		the big dish of meat			before him = he		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination

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