Test 1 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds…

yo, the youngest sis was basically starving herself for a fish, no cap

Mova's choice: option 2 · The right answer: option 3 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: youngest sis · What happens: starve · To what, where: sis

This is test 1 · ★ of lesson 1312 «Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds a fish, he is eaten, and his bones grow into a magic tree» 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	_	8 starving	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 yo	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 sis	det
4	youngest	young	ADJ	Degree=Sup	5 sis	amod
5	sis	sis	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starving	nsubj
6	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 starving	aux
7	basically	basically	ADV	_	8 starving	advmod
8	starving	starve	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
9	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	8 starving	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	12 fish	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 fish	det
12	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 starving	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 cap	punct
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 cap	det
15	cap	cap	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fish	appos

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · progressive	the youngest sis	sis				for a fish; basically 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

she gave half her rice to the fish and went hungry for weeks

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 rice	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rice	nmod:poss
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gave	conj
11	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 went	xcomp
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 weeks	case
13	weeks	week	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 went	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	her rice	the fish				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rice=Theme to fish=Recipient
2	go	past	she not said here				week	hungry property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2 · ← Mova's choice

she gave half of her rice to the fish every single day

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	NOUN	Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac	2 gave	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 rice	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 rice	nmod:poss
6	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 half	nmod
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 fish	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl
10	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	12 day	det
11	single	single	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 day	amod
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl:unmarked

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	half of her rice	the fish		day		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent half=Theme to fish=Recipient

Option 3 · ✓ the right answer

she gave half her rice to the fish

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 rice	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 rice	nmod:poss
5	rice	rice	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 fish	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 fish	det
8	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	her rice	the fish				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rice=Theme to fish=Recipient

Option 4

she gave half her bread to him

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	nsubj
2	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	half	half	DET	NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind	5 bread	det:predet
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 bread	nmod:poss
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gave	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past	she	her bread	him = he				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bread=Theme to he=Recipient

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