Test 2 · ★ · Violet Fairy Book, The Fish of the Fountain: a girl feeds…

lol so her older sisters just ate the fish??

Mova's choice: option 3 · The right answer: option 1 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: older sisters · What happens: eat · To what, where: fish

This is test 2 · ★ 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	lol	lol	INTJ	_	7 ate	discourse
2	so	so	SCONJ	_	7 ate	mark
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sisters	nmod:poss
4	older	old	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	5 sisters	amod
5	sisters	sister	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 ate	nsubj
6	just	just	ADV	_	7 ate	advmod
7	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 ate	obj
10	??	??	PUNCT	_	7 ate	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	eat	past	her older sisters	the fish					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient

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, they boiled him for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 boiled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boiled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiled	nsubj
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiled	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	they	him = he				for supper	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary

Option 2

yeah, they boiled him for supper and hid the bones

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 boiled	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 boiled	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiled	nsubj
4	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 boiled	obj
6	for	for	ADP	_	7 supper	case
7	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 boiled	obl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 hid	cc
9	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 boiled	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 bones	det
11	bones	bone	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 hid	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	boil	past	they	him = he				for supper	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary
2	hide	past	they not said here	the bones					vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient

Option 3 · ← Mova's choice

nah, they gave him to the cat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	nah	nah	INTJ	_	4 gave	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 nah	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	nsubj
4	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gave	iobj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 cat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 cat	det
8	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 gave	obl

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

Option 4

yeah, they cut him up and boiled him for supper

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	yeah	yeah	INTJ	_	4 cut	discourse
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 cut	punct
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	nsubj
4	cut	cut	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 cut	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 cut	compound:prt
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 boiled	cc
8	boiled	boil	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 cut	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 boiled	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	11 supper	case
11	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 boiled	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	cut up	present	they	him = he					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
2	boil	past	they not said here	him = he				for supper	vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent he=Patient for supper=Beneficiary

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