Test 12 · ★ · Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik s…

Why was the colt going mad for those crumbs?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 2 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: colt · What happens: be, go

This is test 12 · ★ of lesson 1319 «Celtic Fairy Tales, Peronnik the Fool, part 44: Peronnik snares the korigan and rides off» 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	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Rel	root	root
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	1 Why	cop
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 colt	det
4	colt	colt	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Why	nsubj
5	going	go	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	4 colt	acl
6	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 going	xcomp
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 crumbs	case
8	those	that	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 crumbs	det
9	crumbs	crumb	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 mad	obl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	1 Why	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the colt					why property	tree rules
2	go	gerund	the colt not said here					mad property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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

bacon fat was its favourite treat

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	bacon	bacon	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fat	compound
2	fat	fat	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 treat	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 treat	cop
4	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 treat	nmod:poss
5	favourite	favourite	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 treat	amod
6	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	bacon fat	fat's favourite treat					tree rules

Option 2 · ✓ the right answer

it had never had bread like that

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 had	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 had	aux
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	4 had	advmod
4	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
6	like	like	ADP	_	7 that	case
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 had	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not have	past · perfect	it	bread				like that	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bread=Patient

Option 3

no horse in the valley had ever been given such a treat before

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	2 horse	det
2	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	nsubj:pass
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 valley	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 valley	det
5	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 horse	nmod
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 given	aux
7	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	9 given	advmod
8	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 given	aux:pass
9	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	12 treat	det:predet
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 treat	det
12	treat	treat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 given	obj
13	before	before	ADV	_	9 given	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	give	past · perfect · passive		no horse in the valley			ever	before property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient treat=Theme

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice

it had been starved for days and wanted every crumb at once

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 starved	nsubj:pass
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 starved	aux
3	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 starved	aux:pass
4	starved	starve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 starved	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 wanted	cc
8	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 starved	conj
9	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	10 crumb	det
10	crumb	crumb	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 wanted	obj
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 wanted	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	starve	past · perfect · passive		it			day		tree rules
2	want	past		every crumb					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot crumb=Theme

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