Test 5 · ★ · Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pon…

Wait, what was Moti yelling at the pony, sick threats or what?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you, Moti · What happens: wait, yell

This is test 5 · ★ of lesson 1301 «Orange Fairy Book, Moti: Moti rides to war on a wobbly pony and frightens a king into surrender.» 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	Wait	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 yelling	punct
3	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	6 yelling	obj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 yelling	aux
5	Moti	Moti	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	nsubj
6	yelling	yell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	1 Wait	advcl
7	at	at	ADP	_	9 pony	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 pony	det
9	pony	pony	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 yelling	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 threats	punct
11	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 threats	amod
12	threats	threat	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 pony	appos
13	or	or	CCONJ	_	14 what	cc
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 threats	conj
15	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Wait	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wait	imperative	you not said here						vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	yell speech: express	past · progressive	Moti					at the pony	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme PP.recipient PP.stimulus»: agent=Agent what=Theme at pony=Stimulus

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

He'd feed it, mate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feed	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 feed	aux
3	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 feed	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mate	punct
6	mate	mate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 feed	vocative

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feed	would	He	it				mate vocative	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 2

He'd take it back to the stable and feed it, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 take	aux
3	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 take	obj
5	back	back	ADV	_	3 take	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 stable	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 stable	det
8	stable	stable	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 feed	cc
10	feed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 take	conj
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 feed	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bruv	punct
13	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 take	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	take back	would	He	it		the stable		bruv obl	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to stable=Destination
2	feed	present	He not said here	stable					vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme

Option 3

He'd skin it alive if it didn't go, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alive	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 alive	aux
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alive	nsubj
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 alive	nsubj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	10 go	mark
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 go	nsubj
8	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 go	aux
9	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 go	advmod
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 alive	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 bruv	punct
12	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 alive	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not go	past · do-support	skin						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

He'd skin it alive, bruv

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skin	nsubj
2	'd	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 skin	aux
3	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 skin	nsubj
5	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 skin	amod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 bruv	punct
7	bruv	bruv	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 skin	conj

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

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