Test 11 · ★ · Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the g…

Did the couple manage to keep the kids fed when they were skint?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: couple, kids · What happens: manage, keep, feed, be

This is test 11 · ★ of lesson 1306 «Spanish Fairy Tales, The Unfinished Houses, part 31: the greedy wife sues to win the unfinished houses» 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	Did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 couple	aux
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 couple	det
3	couple	couple	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 manage	nsubj
4	manage	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 keep	mark
6	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 manage	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 kids	det
8	kids	kid	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 fed	nsubj
9	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 keep	ccomp
10	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	13 skint	advmod
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 skint	nsubj
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 skint	cop
13	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 keep	advcl
14	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 manage	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	manage	present	the couple		vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	keep	to-infinitive	the couple not said here		tree rules
3	feed	past	the kids		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
4	is	past	kids = kid	skint property	tree rules

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 had little, just some soup

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 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 soup	punct
5	just	just	ADV	_	7 soup	advmod
6	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	7 soup	det
7	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	conj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	They					little property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

They were struggling, barely any bread

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	3 struggling	nsubj
2	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 struggling	aux
3	struggling	struggle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 barely	punct
5	barely	barely	ADV	_	3 struggling	advmod
6	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	7 bread	det
7	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 struggling	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	struggle	past · progressive	They	any bread				barely property	tree rules

Option 3

They lived off scraps every day

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 lived	nsubj
2	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	off	off	ADP	_	2 lived	compound:prt
4	scraps	scrap	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 lived	obj
5	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	6 day	det
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 lived	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live off	past	They	scraps			day		vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme scrap=Location

Option 4

The family was skint and barely ate at all, sharing one loaf between all of them every single day

The tree, 19 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 family	det
2	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 skint	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skint	cop
4	skint	skint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 ate	cc
6	barely	barely	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 skint	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	9 all	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 ate	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 sharing	punct
11	sharing	share	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 skint	parataxis
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 loaf	nummod
13	loaf	loaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sharing	obj
14	between	between	ADP	_	15 all	case
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 sharing	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 all	nmod
18	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	20 day	det
19	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 day	amod
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sharing	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the family				skint property	tree rules
2	eat	past	the family not said here		all		barely property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	share	gerund		one loaf		day	between all	tree rules

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